Will the Amur (Siberian) Tiger survive extinction and are there laws in place in Russia to protect them?

Question

I heard there are only a few hundred left in the wild. But this is a huge cat! Some have been known to weigh nearly 1/2 of a ton and have a length of 10 ft. including the tail. These Big Cats need Big territory sense they are not social animals. I would like to see the numbers increase but alot of people are afraid of them and alot of them have been killed because of how the cats have come into contact with more and more people moving into the cats territory. Of course this is no Cat to take lightly! Because it has been know to eat fully grown brown bears! Hopefully people will quit killing animals just for the fun of it or for their fur. Thats just wrong!

Answer 1

1. Unlikely, in the wild.
2. Yes, but they are impossible to enforce.

Answer 2

Yes, there are laws to protect them, but it is a question whether the laws are enforced or not. In many countries there are conservation laws on the
books, but no money provided for enforcement.
I have even heard of people employed in the
supposedly protective branches of law enforcement who were killing the animals themselves. This sort of thing is especially true of
so-called Third World countries.

The Siberian tiger is still not seriously threatened.
Zoos are said to be overstocked with them, so
that they are even looking for birth control pills to
prevent their breeding. This is so of some other
zoo animals, also. The main problem, of course,
is the overpopulation of humans. Just in my life-
time the earth's population has at least tripled. As
someone has said, if we keep on breeding like rats
we will someday begin to die like rats, also.

Answer 3

Tigers breed quite well in captivity so it is unlikely that they will ever become extinct.