The Amur leopard is critically endangered with fewer than 100 individuals remaining in the Russian Far East, facing poaching, habitat loss, and inbreeding.
The Amur leopard faces multiple intersecting welfare threats including poaching for pelts and bones, prey depletion causing nutritional stress, and the health consequences of severe inbreeding in the remaining population. Individuals injured in snares or by vehicles in fragmented habitat face suffering with minimal prospect of rescue. The psychological burden of living in an increasingly human-dominated landscape with persistent disturbance is an ongoing welfare concern for this critically small population.