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Eurasian Beaver
Castor fiber
  Linnaeus, 1758
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Castor canadensis
   
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Taxonomy and Distribution

Taxa

 Eurasian Beaver Castor fiber (32246)
 The Eurasian beaver Castor fiber was once widespread in Europe and Asia. However, by the beginning of the 20th century, over-hunting had drastically reduced both the numbers and range of the species. In Europe, only a few isolated sites remained: parts of the Rhone (France) and Elbe (Germany), southern Norway, the Neman River and Dnepr Basin (Belarus) and Voronezh (Russia). A series of management measures and reintroductions have enabled the beaver to return to much of its former range, and there are now a number of rapidly expanding populations extending from Spain and France across central and eastern Europe to European Russia, and in Scandinavia and parts of western Finland. Free-living populations of beavers are now established or establishing in most regions of their former European range, the main exceptions to date being Portugal, Italy, the south Balkans and Great Britain. The Chinese subspecies of the Eurasian Beaver (C. f. birulai) is one of the rarest and least known aquatic mammals in China. In the 1970s it was believed that only 100 animals remained in fewer than 20 family groups. Currently, only one substantial population is known, at the Buergan River Beaver Reserve along the Xinjiang-Mongolian border. Native: Belarus; China; France; Germany; Kazakhstan; Luxembourg; Mongolia; Norway; Russian Federation; Regionally extinct: Moldova; Portugal; Turkey; United Kingdom; Reintroduced: Austria; Belgium; Croatia; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; Hungary; Italy; Latvia; Liechtenstein; Lithuania; Montenegro; Netherlands; Poland; Romania; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Ukraine (IUCN 2011)


References

  • Castor fiber: Dyntaxa (2012) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at http://www.dyntaxa.se