In 2010, habitat pressures on the Amur leopard, one of the rarest big cats in the world, intensified due to forest loss and poaching in the Russian Far East. These threats have drastically reduced the population of this critically endangered species, highlighting the urgent need for conservation measures. The plight of the Amur leopard serves as a stark reminder of the challenges facing wildlife in the face of habitat destruction and illegal hunting.

The habitat pressures on the Amur leopard in 2010 became a symbol of borderland wilderness in Russian and Chinese poetry. Poets like Anna Akhmatova used the plight of this endangered species to explore themes of survival and the fragility of nature in a rapidly changing world.