Eurasian Brown Bear in the Carpathians

The Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos).

The Carpathian Mountains are a range of mountains forming an arc roughly 1,500 km long across Central Europe, making them the second-longest mountain range in Europe (after the Scandinavian Mountains, 1,700 km). They provide the habitat for the largest European populations of brown bears, wolves, chamois and lynxes, as well as over one third of all European plant species.

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Carpathian Mountains Wildlife

The Carpathian Mountains are a range of mountains forming an arc roughly 1,500 km long across Central Europe, making them the second-longest mountain range in Europe (after the Scandinavian Mountains, 1,700 km). They provide the habitat for the largest European populations of brown bears, wolves, chamois and lynxes, as well as over one third of all European plant species.

The Carpathians consist of a chain of mountain ranges that stretch in an arc from the Czech Republic (3%) in the northwest through Slovakia (17%), Poland (10%), Hungary (4%) and Ukraine (11%) to Romania (53%) in the east and on to the Iron Gates on the River Danube between Romania and Serbia (2%) in the south. The highest range within the Carpathians is the Tatras, on the border of Slovakia and Poland, where the highest peaks exceed 2,600 m.

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Shoot date: 19/06/2015

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