Primorskii Province deputies approached Interagency Commission on Rare and Endangered Flora and Fauna Species with the initiative to include “bread-giving” tree of the Ussuri taiga into the Red Data Book of Primorye. WWF finds the idea to be very timely and offers Primorye Administration to support the initiative. This would be the best present for a tiger in commemoration of the Year of Tiger. During a heated discussion, one of the deputies was very crisp saying that they should take revolutionary decision towards the tree, that they there were no time to wait another 3-5 years.

This idea was already supported in 2007 by 20 000 Far Eastern citizens who send their post cards to the President of Russia asking to protect Korean pine stands from destruction.