Wild Russia

This iconic and landmark series explores Russias most mysterious and amazing locations and most iconic wildlife. Covering an expanse of over 6. 6 million square miles Russia is epic in it's scale. From east to west, via mountains, volcanoes, deserts, lakes and Arctic ice, it's extremes are awe-inspiring. Russias incredible wildlife inhabits terrain that extends across 12 time zones; from the tundra region in the far north to the Caucasus Mountains and prairies in the south it contains the planets largest expanse of forest (22% of all the forest in the world), over 3. 5 million square miles of mixed woodlands that are home to rare carnivores such as tigers, bears and leopards. Russia remains one of the worlds great wildernesses.