The Wildlife Conservation Society commends the Russian government for creating a new national park to protect critically endangered Amur (Siberian) tigers and the world’s rarest big cat: the Far Eastern leopard.
See http://www.wcs.org/press/press-releases/russia-announces-new-park-to-protect-amur-leopards.aspx
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Just heard from the authors of this article and they provide me a detailed map of the new park. Email me for a link.
There is a baiting station for the leopards, but unless you have really good local contacts, the park expects you to buy an SUV for them if you want to use the blind 🙂