Historical habitat
In the 19th century, the leopard's habitat stretched across the Korean Peninsula, eastern provinces of China and the southern part of Sikhote-Alin in Russia’s Primorye Territory. By mid-20th century, the Far Eastern leopard seemed to have disappeared from the Korean Peninsula. In eastern China, the subspecies survived only in the areas adjacent to the Russian border. By the mid-1980s it had vanished from the southern Sikhote-Alin. Today, the Far Eastern leopard inhabits mostly the southwestern part of the Primorye Territory.
The Far Eastern leopard inhabits Manchurian mixed forests of pine and deciduous broadleaf trees, preferring rugged terrain with steep slopes and protruding rocks