Outside the fire season, he gives presentations in schools about the necessity of fire prevention and assists the anti-poaching team. The team has already successfully extinguished several fires. In most cases fires are started by farmers who set fire to their fields in order to improve the fertility of the land. Unless large forests are preserved there will be no future for the Siberian tiger and the Amur leopard. Most of the the remaining habitat of the Amur leopard has some form of protection, but most Siberian tigers live outside protected areas.
Plans exist for expanding and connecting reserves.
However, it is impossible to protect all tiger habitat which covers an area almost the size of France. Tigers can live outside reserves as long as hunting is regulated and forests are not cut down. A healthy tiger population and sustainable forest use can go well together. Fields and grassland can be interchanged with forests from which herbs, berries, fungi and nuts can be harvested. Limited hunting can be allowed as well as fishing on salmon and trout in the many rivers and streams.