The Natural Resources and Environment Ministry has prepared a draft amendment to reduce the hunting ground usage rates in a measure intended to increase the area of licensed, restricted-acess hunting grounds in the Primorye Territory, Amur and Sakhalin regions, and the Jewish Autonomous Region. These territories serve as the natural habitats of the Amur tiger and the Far Eastern leopard.

Restricted hunting grounds are in a better position to preserve and stabilise the hoofed animal population in areas inhabited by rare large predator species.

These measures are implemented as part of the Strategy for the Amur Tiger Conservation approved by the Natural Resources Ministry. The document envisages measures for tiger conservation and protection, including creating conditions to improve the economic standing of licensed hunting grounds populated by the Amur tiger by attracting investments and other non-budgetary funds.

Wild hoofed animals are hunted in a sustainable manner and reproduce better in licensed hunting grounds. Wild boars, and spotted and red deer are the chief sources of food for tigers and other rare predators, such as the Far Eastern leopard, and the increase in their populations will also contribute to the reproduction of large predators.