Alexander Samoylenko has been a park ranger for more than 25 years. He says he can spend weeks tracking only one group of loggers: "It's easier to work when the snow falls, in the autumn it's impossible to find human tracks, and the track of the vehicles is hard to see."
The teams say they are legal but they do not have documents and Alexander, if he finds them, can call the police. The numerical inferiority is overwhelming. Here very few rangers work in the Primorye region and the WWF says the government is not doing enough to stop this situation.
"The government started reforming the forest legislation in 2007 and from there we have a new forestry code, but the code still does not work." Says the local head of the forestry program WWF Smirnov Denis.
"If nobody tries to stop them, in five years the forest will be gone, they're selling everything to China, what will the people who come after?" exclaims Aleksander Samoylenko.
If the record does not stop in the region, one of the most natural places on Earth could disappear forever.