· Daurian Steppe.

· Daurian steppe is one of the largest steppe ecosystems left in the steppe and forest-steppe belt of Eurasia;

· The most part of the remained native forests and wetland ecosystems are located on the territory of Russian Federation;

· The most part of the steppe and forest-steppe ecosystems as well as the major part of wetlands are located on the territory of Mongolia.

· High probability of further ecosystem degradation and habitats loss within the Tumen River Area Development Program at new stage of economic activity and load on the ecosystems;

· Necessity of fundamental changes in the system of land/nature management vs. conducting a series of nature protective measures (In other words, just conservation of today’s condition and tendencies in nature management and ecosystem development does not guarantee conservation and, accordingly, conservation of the whole related biodiversity complex);

· Necessity of serious changes in the system of land/nature management not only in Tumen River Area and Daurian steppe, but also in the whole region.

· Final fragmentation of Chernye Gory ecosystems and loss of its liaison with the ecosystems of Sikhote-Alin and Southern part of Eastern Manchzurian mountains (massif Changbai);

· Loss of areas occupied by important for biodiversity ecosystems in Southwestern Primorye (SWP), Yanbian Autonomous Prefecture and Northern Hamgyong (slightly or non-transformed broad-leaved and coniferous forests, wetlands (including coastal) and deterioration of the ecosystems’ quality structure;

· Reduction of the area occupied by ecosystems of Daurian steppe: mountain forest-steppe, forests, wetlands;

· Aggravation of the natural aridization processes in Daurian Steppe Ecoregion as a result of irrational nature management.

· Russian Federation - Daurian Steppe: fires, poaching, irrational farming, aridization of climate;

· China - Yanbian Autonomous Perfecture: farming (loss of wetlands), felling (restricted in 1998), forest recovery by means of single culture plantations, urbanization and suburbanization;

· DPRK - Tument River Area: industrial felling, irrational agricultural development.

· Creation and support of the strategic ecological corridors system;

· Improvement of the protected areas system, transfer to Econet formation;

· Conservation and recovery of ecosystems: wetlands, native forests, and coastal wetlands with consideration of the most important habitats’ recovery.

· Favorable economic and geographic location, which allows to actively using the transit function;

· Possibilities to develop industries with strict requirements towards the condition of the environment;

· Presence of high quality natural resources (for instance resources of coastal zone).

· Conservation and recovery of the forest and wetland ecosystems’ structure in the areas of Ecological corridors;

· Impart the nature-protected status to Ecological corridors, primarily to the international ones;

· Create a coordinated plan of NPA formation as well as the boundary-adjacent NPA coordinated management system;

· Along with commercial value of forests, consider importance of the created forest ecosystems when defining the forest recovery policy;

· Impart the given unified NPA the biosphere status, include it into East Asian network of biosphere reserves;

· On the first stage the unified NPA in leopard and tiger area (in SWP) is created by the territory structure optimization of Kedrovaya Pad reserve, zakazniks (hunting reserves) Barsovy and Borisovskoye Plateau;

· On the second stage of the SWP Econet structure optimization, the status of Khasansky Nature Park is improved.

· Ecological corridor, connecting the northern and southern part of Eastern Manchzurian Mountains;

· Ecological corridor Chernye Gory - Sikhote-Alin.

· Creation of fire fighting brigade of non-departmental subordination within the Khasansky District administration;

· Development of the plan for reconstruction of the low-value plantations into important habitats - broad-leaved and coniferous forests;

· Start implementing the low-value plantations reconstruction plan;

· Build a system of fire prevention belts in the territory of SWP;

· Develop and implement the small-leaved (birch and etc.) plantations harvesting plan with regard to the needs of wild ungulates;

· Approve the regional standard Act “On responsibility of land users for fire safety in the leopard area”;

· Conduct the regional fire prevention educational campaign;

· When processing the formalities for obtaining the land usage rights, sign the additional contract, in which it is necessary to state the following responsibilities of the land user.