| Latin Name: |
Rupicapra rupicapra |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Chordata |
| Class: |
Mammalia |
| Order: |
Artiodactyla |
| Family: |
Bovidae |
| Genus: |
Rupicapra |
| Red List Assessment: |
Least Concern (LC) |
| Popylation Trend: |
440000 mature individuals |
| Geographic Range: |
Albania; Austria; Azerbaijan; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; France; Georgia; Germany; Greece; Italy; Montenegro; North Macedonia; Poland; Romania; Russian Federation; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Switzerland; Türkiye. The subspecies balcanica inhabits most of the mountain regions of Albania, as well as Bulgaria’s four main massifs. In Greece, it is currently restricted to 11 mountains, and comprising at least six distinct and widely scattered population groups from Mount Rodopi in the northeast and the Epirus mountains in the northwest, to Mount Giona in central Greece (Shackleton 1997) |
| Habitat Type: |
Forest, Shrubland, Grassland, Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks), Artificial/Terrestrial |
