China Mammal Trip Report including Sichuan and the Tibetan Plateau by Nick Buys.
A short June 2026 trip through Sichuan produced an impressive selection of mammals, including Red Panda, Tibetan Fox, Asian Black Bear, Golden Snub-nosed Monkey, Blue Sheep and Mai
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WildWings are running two trips to China in search of Snow Leopard, Pallas’s Cat, Red Panda and more and are offering an exclusive discount to mammalwatchers. Quite right too
Chasing the Yangtze’s Smile – The Porpoise Story
Hello everyone! I am Robert Tsui from China. I am a beginner in mammal watching and this is my first post and trip report here. This report focuses on one single protagonist—the
New Podcast: Made in China
In this month’s podcast Charles and I compare notes from our recent trips to China, and talk the joys of travel there, especially the country’s superb mammalwatching op
Trip Report – Qinghai Tibetan Mammals Tour – Royle Safaris – July-August 2025
Royle Safaris was once again back in China during the summer of 2025 for our now annual mammalwatching group tour to the Tibetan Plateau. With another group of intrepid mammalwatch
Quick Trip to Tianmu Mountain, Zhejiang Province, China
I spent the final few days of my month in China in the southeast, around Hangzhou. The mammalwatching wasn’t as successful here as we’d hoped but after 4 weeks in China
A Day in Guangxi (China), 2026
The fourth leg of my China tour had me flying to Nanning to meet another leading Chinese mammalwatching, Zhou Fangyi. Zhou, an elephant researcher working in Yunnan, has been follo
Qinghai’s Gouli Valley, Qilian Mountains and Xining (China), 2026
For the third leg of my China month I returned to Qinghai and the Tibetan Plateau. I was here in 2015 for two weeks and saw for myself that this is one of the world’s great wildl
Yunnan, April 2026
Ever since I read Sichao Ma’s 2023 report about Yunnan’s primates I had wanted to visit. I asked around, but I couldn’t figure out how to plan a trip. Some sites were rum
A Weekend in Tangjiahe Nature Reserve, Sichuan
Hello from China, where I’m one week into a 30-day, visa-free, trip to China. I’m traveling through Yunnan at the moment for 10 days, followed by a week around Xining i