forests cover per cent of the territory in azerbaijan and per cent in armenia mainly due to unfavourable natural and soil conditions and scarce rainfall primary forest of native species with its extension of ha largely consisting of protected forest has remained virtually unchanged the country s nine varied climatic zones ranging from wet subtropical to everlasting snow and glacier zones in combination with variation in soils and reliefs favoured the development of diverse vegetation formations beech fagus orientalis is the species with the highest growing stock estimated to million m