What Animals Live in Birch Forests in Russia The wildlife of Russia inhabits terrain that extends across 12 time zones and from the tundra region in the far north to the Caucasus Mountains and prairies in the south, including temperate forests which cover lxx% of the country's territory. Russia 's forests comprise 22% of the forest in the world [i] as well equally 33% of all temperate wood in the world. [ii] Co-ordinate to the data furnished in the Red Data Book of the Russian Federation , every bit of 1996, there were 266 mammal species and 780 bird species under protection. [3] Some of th