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    Siberian Lynx

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    The Eurasian lynx has a broad distribution across Europe and Asia, from western Europe through boreal forests of Russia and into central Asia and the Tibetan plateau. Populations in southeastern Europe and southwest Asia are small and isolated, while populations in Scandinavia through Russia and central Asia remain largely intact. The lynx inhabits forested areas with good ungulate populations throughout its range, and occurs in more open woodlands in central Asia and the rocky hills and mountains of central Asian deserts. It is native to 38 countries across Europe and Asia.

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    The Eurasian lynx has a broad distribution across Europe and Asia, from western Europe through boreal forests of Russia and into central Asia and the Tibetan plateau. Populations in southeastern Europe and southwest Asia are small and isolated, while populations in Scandinavia through Russia and central Asia remain largely intact. The lynx inhabits forested areas with good ungulate populations throughout its range, and occurs in more open woodlands in central Asia and the rocky hills and mountains of central Asian deserts. It is native to 38 countries across Europe and Asia.

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    The Eurasian lynx has a broad distribution across Europe and Asia, from western Europe through boreal forests of Russia and into central Asia and the Tibetan plateau. Populations in southeastern Europe and southwest Asia are small and isolated, while populations in Scandinavia through Russia and central Asia remain largely intact. The lynx inhabits forested areas with good ungulate populations throughout its range, and occurs in more open woodlands in central Asia and the rocky hills and mountains of central Asian deserts. It is native to 38 countries across Europe and Asia.

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    Common Name: Eurasian Lynx, Siberian Lynx

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Chordata (Vertebrata)
    Class: Mammalia
    Order: Carnivora
    Family: Felidae
    Genus: Felinae (Lynx)
    Species: lynx
    The Eurasian lynx has a very broad distribution from western Europe through the boreal forests of
    Russia, and down into central Asia and the Tibetan plateau (Nowell and Jackson 1996, Sunquist
    and Sunquist 2002). Populations in the southeast of its range (Europe and southwest Asia) are
    generally small and widely separated, whereas the bulk of its historic range from Scandinavia
    through Russia and Central Asia is largely intact.

    Range
    Description:

    Habitat and
    Ecology:

    Countries:

    In Europe, it was probably absent from some of the larger islands such as Ireland and Sicily and
    from countries with few forests. It was also absent from the Iberian Peninsula, where the smaller
    Iberian lynx Lynx pardinus occurs. Lynx have been extirpated from most of western Europe. In
    central Europe, they survive only in the Carpathian Mountains and a small area of the south Dinaric
    Mountains in Greece, Macedonia and Albania, although larger populations persisted in
    Fennoscandia, the Baltic states, and European Russia. Lynx have been released in several areas
    of Europe in an effort to reintroduce this elusive predator including in Switzerland, Slovenia, Italy,
    Czech Republic, Austria, Germany and France (IUCN 2007).

    Throughout Europe and Siberia, lynx are associated primarily with forested areas which have good
    ungulate populations (Nowell and Jackson 1996). In Central Asia lynx occur in more open, thinly
    wooded areas. The species probably occurs throughout the northern slopes of the Himalayas, and
    has been reported both from thick scrub woodland and barren, rocky areas above the treeline. On
    the better-forested southern Himalayan slopes, there are only a few records from Nepal (Nowell
    and Jackson 1996, Karan Bahadur Shah pers. comm. 2008). Lynx occur sporadically throughout
    the Tibetan plateau, and are found throughout the rocky hills and mountains of the Central Asian
    desert regions (Nowell and Jackson 1996).

    Native:
    Afghanistan; Albania; Armenia (Armenia); Austria; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Bhutan; Bosnia and
    Herzegovina; Bulgaria; China; Croatia; Czech Republic; Estonia; Finland; France; Georgia;
    Germany; Greece; Hungary; India; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Italy; Kazakhstan; Korea,
    Democratic People's Republic of; Kyrgyzstan; Latvia; Lithuania; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav
    Republic of; Moldova; Mongolia; Montenegro; Nepal; Norway; Pakistan; Poland; Romania; Russian
    Federation; Serbia (Serbia); Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Tajikistan; Turkey;
    Turkmenistan; Ukraine; Uzbekistan

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