After decades of decline in their population, the Siberian Tiger has begun to show signs of their chilled population coming back though slowly.
Hunted down to 40 animals, the Siberian tiger barely survived the 1940s. In 2005 the wildlife Conservation Society estimated the subspecies to be at 431 to 529 animals worldwide. Ever since then it has slowly clawed its way back, with help from a Russian hunting ban and the efforts of conservation groups.
But the world's largest wild cat, the Siberian Tiger, has now grown in number to about 600, the highest such count in over a hundred years, according to a new Russian census heralded by the international conservation organization WWF.
The current Siberian forest habitat simply can't support many more tigers, given each animal's need for a roughly 100-mile-wide territory and plentiful boar and deer to feed on.
That far-ranging lifestyle is looking more and more difficult, as logging companies increase their footprints in far eastern Russia  and as poachers continue to kill Siberian tigers for use in traditional Chinese medicine.
"There is still demand from China for the bones of the Amur tiger (Siberian Tiger). An Amur skeleton from Russia will sell for around [U.S.] $5,000 in China." Vaisman told Reuters.