Eurasian beaver Castor fiber Least concern
Where the Eurasian beaver lives – recorded in 16 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.
Pin and shaded countries are approximate. The pin is a representative wild sighting (a central record among 301,056 open-licence GBIF records), not an official range. Method · Records on GBIF · See mice, rats & other rodents on the world map
| Scientific name | Castor fiber |
|---|---|
| Group | Mice, rats & other rodents |
| Status | Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label) |
| Found in | 16 countries |
| Continents | Europe |
| Class | Mammal |
| Order | Rodentia |
| Family | Castoridae |
Where does the Eurasian beaver live?
Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the Eurasian beaver in 16 countries and territories across Europe.
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- France
- Germany
- Sweden
- Norway
- Belgium
- Russia
- Austria
- Estonia
- Ukraine
- Luxembourg
- Liechtenstein
- Poland
- Denmark
- Spain
Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.
Is the Eurasian beaver endangered?
The Eurasian beaver’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.
What kind of animal is the Eurasian beaver?
The Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) is a mammal in the order Rodentia and the family Castoridae, genus Castor. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)
About the Eurasian beaver
The Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) or European beaver is a species of beaver widespread across Eurasia, with a rapidly increasing population of 1.5 million in 2020. The Eurasian beaver was hunted to near-extinction for both its fur and castoreum, with only about 1,200 beavers in eight relict populations from France to Mongolia in the early 20th century. It has since been reintroduced into much of its former range and now lives from Western, Southern, Central and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Russia through China and Mongolia, with about half the population in Russia. It is listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List.
Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Eurasian beaver (revision 1381075953), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q181191 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).
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