In Far Eastern Russia, there are several threats directed towards the Amur Leopard. For example forest fires, poaching and also habitat destruction. The Amur Leopard's habitat are temperate forests with harsh winters, and extremely hot winters.
The poaching is probably one of the biggest threat towards the Amur leopard. People in Far Eastern Russia poach the Amur Leopard for several body parts, like the fur that they use to make coats, hats, and clothes. Poaching is usual done by locals in Far Eastern Russia, or people who are rich and poach as a sport. Poaching is actually relatively convenient for locals to do, with the Amur Leopard's poaching range so accessible. Poaching is not always done for body parts, hunters may also poach the Amur Leopard to decrease the amount of competition for wild boar, and dear. Locals may also poach Amur Leopards in revenge for preying on domestic animals. The poaching of the Amur Leopard's prey may actually more of a threat than poaching an Amur Leopard themselves.
Annual forest fires are probably the biggest threat towards the Amur Leopards habitat. Most forests in Russia have high amounts of rainfall, as well as high amounts of vegetation, but annual human caused fires are turning the Amur Leopard's habitat into grasslands and savannas which are not for leopards. Research by WCS show that from 1996 to 2003, 46% of potential Amur Leopard Habitat has been destroyed in forest fires. Some fires are caused to wipe out ticks and bugs, but after the Amur Leopard is left with land not suitable for their habitat.
Habitat destruction for the Amur Leopard is not a good thing. Whenever the government starts expanding rail road networks, expansion of the electricity grid, and also mining coal, the Amur Leopard's habitat is destroyed, one minor but very harsh threat is that if any type of virus or disease spreads to one Amur Leopard, it could possibly spread to all of them, which would wipe out the whole population in an instant, which keep in mind that the population is not very large.