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Amur Tigers, also known as Siberian tigers are the world’s largest cats. They primarily live throughout the Russian Far East, northern China and Korean peninsula in mountainous areas and coniferous forests. They almost became extinct by the 1940s due to hunting and poaching. Fortunately, when there were around about 40 individuals remaining in the wild, Russia decided to become the first nation to provide the tigers with full protection. By the 1980s, the population of Amur Tiger gradually increased to approximately 500. Their habitat is now restricted to the Sikhote-Alin range in the Primorski and Khabarovsk provinces of the Russian Far East, small pockets in the border areas of China and possibly in North Korea. In comparison to any tiger subspecies, Amur tigers have the largest home range because it’s a necessity to search over large land masses to find food due to low prey density.