On January 26, 2010, Vladimir Putin signed an executive order on holding an international forum devoted to the global conservation of tigers in Vladivostok from September 9 to 12, 2010. The summit will aim to develop coordinated measures to protect the tigers as the number of these predators continues to decline all over the world.

The decision of Mr Putin  has already received positive response worldwide. According to a final statement adopted in Thailand on January 29, 2010, the participants of the First Ministerial Conference on Asian Tiger Conservation "appreciate and welcome the initiative of the Russian Federation to hold a summit devoted to issues of tiger conservation at the level of heads of state in Vladivostok in September 2010." 

Representatives of 13 countries, which are home to tigers, took part in the conference: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Cambodia, China, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia and Thailand.

The Russian delegation led by Konstantin Totsky, a deputy head of the Federal Service for the Oversight of Natural Resources (Rosprirodnadzor), submitted draft proposals on the format of the summit and the issues to be discussed to the participants of the conference.