Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758
DISTRIBUTION
Three thousand years ago, the Brown Bear occurred throughout Europe. The range is now greatly reduced and only small, fragmented, populations remain within western Europe; these are located in the Pyrenees Mountains on the border between France and Spain; the Cantabrian Mountains of Spain; and the Trentino Alps and Apennines in Italy.6
The Brown Bear is more widespread in northern and eastern Europe, but only in northern Scandinavia and Russia can it be found over a wide, continuous area.6 The Brown Bear is still considered well distributed in Turkey.6
Extinct (Europe): Belgium; Denmark; Germany; Hungary; Ireland; Liechtenstein; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Portugal; Switzerland; United Kingdom.
Range States (Europe): Albania; Austria [Reintroduced]; Belarus?; Bulgaria;
Czech Republic; Estonia; Finland; France;
Greece; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania?; Moldavia?;
Norway; Poland; Romania; Russia; Slovakia; Spain; Sweden; Turkey; Ukraine?; former Yugoslavia.
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