Wildlife Alliance

Amur Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)

Status: Critically endangered

Habitat Range:

They reside in mountainous taiga forest in the Russian Far East, Russia-China border, and into northeast China.

Numbers Left in the Wild: 350-400

Primary Threats:

Poaching, habitat loss and human-tiger conflict issues are the leading causes depleting wild Amur tigers. Illegal logging, forest fires, and the dissapearance of the tiger's natural prey tends to contribute to habitat loss. Lack of natural prey causes the tigers to attack livestock, dogs, and raid garbage. Road construction into their habitat also adds to the problem of human-tiger conflict, and the brutal cycle continues. We must carry on problem solving initiatives so that humans and Amur tigers can co-exist peacefully.

What we are doing to help:

• "Inspection Tiger," Phoenix Fund's project in the Russian Far East, deploys ranger teams that conduct anti-poaching patrols throughout protected park areas. They also intercept poachers trying to smuggle tigers and tiger parts out of the parks.
  
  
• To help prevent human-tiger conflicts, Phoenix Fund published a booklet, entitled "Guidelines for human behavior and livestock management in tiger habitat." This booklet has been distributed throughout Primorye to promote peaceful tactics on how to live with Amur tigers in communities surrounding their habitats.
  
  
• Phoenix Fund provides compensation to farmers for livestock loss due to hungry tigers in search of food.