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Brown Bear – Ursus arctos
Eero Peltonen, Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 4.0
Brown Bear
(fi: karhu, sv: brunbjörn)
Ursus arctos
Organism groups
Endangered status in Finland
ENDANGERED CATEGORY (International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classification)
CR Critically endangered
EN Endangered
VU Endangered
NT Near threatened
LC Least concern
2019 NT - near threatened
2015 NT - near threatened
2010 VU - vulnerable
2000 NT - near threatened
Regulations
Species requiring strict protection within the European Union (NVF 2023/1066, Appendix 7)
Appendix 7 of the Nature Conservation Decree contains a list of species in Finland that require strict protection by the European Union.
EU Habitats Directive Annex II
EU Habitats Directive Annex IV
Priority species (EU Habitats Directive, Appendix II)
EU Habitats Directive Annex II, exception granted for Finnish populations
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna - CITES, Appendix II
EU regulation regarding CITES, Appendix A
Game mammal (Hunting law 1993/615; 2019/683)
Safeguarding Endangered Species in Forestry – Lajiturva Project 2019–2021