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The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is the national animal of Russia. This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Russia. There are 266 mammal species in Russia, of which five are critically endangered, thirteen are endangered, twenty-six are vulnerable, and six are near threatened.
In Russia, the Siberian musk deer is protected as Very Rare under part 7.1 of the Law of the Mongolian Animal Kingdom (2000) and also under the 1995 Mongolian Hunting Law. [1] The musk deer are also protected under the National Parks, which account for approximately 13% of the Siberian musk deer population.
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 70% of the country. Russia's forests comprise 22% of the forest in the world [1] as well as 33% of all temperate forest. [2]
The Siberian grouse is similar to the spruce grouse and Franklin's grouse of North America, and can be found in the dense, remote pockets of broadleaf, coniferous and deciduous forests of Far East Russia. Common ungulates include red deer, roe deer, wild boar, Manchurian moose, and musk deer.
The Manchurian sika deer was formerly found in Manchuria (northeastern China), Korea, and the Russian Far East.Today it is likely to be extinct in China and Korea, but about 9,000 individuals still live in the sparsely populated areas of Primorsky Krai in Russia.
There are three large herds of migratory tundra wild reindeer in central Siberia's Yakutia region: Lena-Olenek, Yana-Indigirka and Sundrun herds. While the population of the Lena-Olenek herd is stable, the others are declining. [15] Further east again, the Chukotka herd is also in decline. In 1971 there were 587,000 animals.
Within Russia, the Caspian red deer has been hunted for velvet antlers since the 1930s. [6] Historically, demand for velvet antlers from Asia was met by organized deer farms in the Soviet Union. [7] Hunting by humans have been noted as the cause for decreases in population.
There is no doubt that when the glaciers retreated at the end of the last Ice Age, people followed reindeer to the North, using traps during the reindeer hunt. [2] Modern archaeological data ( rock art ) suggest that domestication may have taken place for the first time in the Sayan Mountains between Russia and Mongolia , possibly 2–3 ...