Injured Snow Leopard Saved in Xinjiang

An injured snow leopard was saved Tuesday afternoon in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. In Jinghe County, a snow leopard was found beside a pond in a salt filed. Police officers from the local public security bureau rushed to the site upon hearing the news. According to Kurban, a worker at the salt field, he accidentally found an injured “big cat“ by a salt-drying pond. “At first I thought it was a dog, but when I got closer, it looked like a cat. I was afraid and ran backwards. Th