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  • Siberian Flying Squirrel – Pteromys volans

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  • Siberian Flying Squirrel – Pteromys volans

    https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/36397643

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  • Siberian Flying Squirrel – Pteromys volans

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  • Siberian Flying Squirrel – Pteromys volans

    https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/36397643

    Tatyana Kolesnikova, Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 4.0

Siberian Flying Squirrel

(fi: liito-orava, sv: flygekorre)

Pteromys volans

Description

Identification

Distribution in Finland

Behaviour

Habitat

References

Organism groups

Endangered status in Finland

ENDANGERED CATEGORY (International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classification)

IUCN threat classifications

CR Critically endangered

EN Endangered

VU Endangered

NT Near threatened

LC Least concern

2019 VU - vulnerable

2015 NT - near threatened

2010 VU - vulnerable

2000 VU - vulnerable

Regulations

Threatened species (NCD 2023/1066, Appendix 6)

The Nature Conservation Decree can regulate a wild species whose natural survival in Finland has been endangered as an endangered species.

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, Finland's Natura species

Annex II species and subspecies occurring in Finland as criteria for the protection of Natura 2000 sites in Finland. The species has been considered in the bilateral negotiations between the EU and Finland to be such a permanent position that Finland must establish special protection areas for the protection of the habitats of these species (Natura 2000 network of sites).

Connectivity of forest conservation areas – SUMI Project 2020

Safeguarding Endangered Species in Forestry – Lajiturva Project 2019–2021

OUTDATED Threatened species (NCD 1997/160, Appendix 4 2013/471)