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These limitations are particularly relevant for medium- and large-sized mammals, whose distributions may respond rapidly to human disturbance and land-use change. Here, we evaluated the potential of long-term, curated mass-media records to support biodiversity knowledge by analyzing The Eyes of the Secret Land (TESL), a Chinese television program based mainly on infrared camera-trap footage collected across protected areas in China. We extracted mammal records from 1829 episodes broadcast between 2019 and 2024 and compared media-exposed species richness patterns with official provincial biodiversity data using Spearman rank correlation. TESL documented 118 mammal species, including 42 nationally protected and 52 IUCN-threatened species. Media-exposed species richness was positively correlated with official richness at the provincial level (\u03c1 = 0.68, p &lt; 0.001). Generalized linear models identified episode count and latitude as significant predictors of media-exposed species richness. Comparison with IUCN range maps also identified three potential new distribution records. These results demonstrate that curated monitoring footage from a mass-media program can recover broad-scale biodiversity patterns, although inherent taxonomic and spatial biases necessitate cautious interpretation. 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