Compensation For Livestock Predation Tigers and leopards in Russia usually avoid people and killing of livestock is limited. It are most often young cats with no territory of their own that consider cattle wandering free along the forest edge as easy prey. When prey is very scarce due to poaching, live stock losses increase. Amur leopards and Siberian tigers relatively often prey on sika deer that are kept on large farms. For the cats there is no difference between domestic deer and wild deer.
Farmers sometimes try to kill leopards and tigers that visit their farm.
For the farmers even the killing of a single animal is a considerable financial loss. It is important that the deer farmers are compensated. Compensation will prevent leopards and tigers from being killed and will increase the support for nature conservation in general among the poor farmer communities in Khasan. In the first months of 1999 a compensation scheme that is financed by Tigris Foundation became operational. The compensation scheme is carried out by the leopard team and Phoenix .