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The fauna of Europe is all the animals living in Europe and its surrounding seas and islands. Europe is the western part of the Palearctic realm (which in turn is part of the Holarctic).
Information on the environment for those involved in developing, adopting, implementing and evaluating environmental policy, and also the general public.
7 mar 2011 · The Fauna Europaea geographical system follows basically the ISO 3166 and TDWG 2.0 country code with minor modifications. The covered area is the same as European mainland (Western Palearctic), plus the Macaronesian islands (excluding Cape Verde Islands), Cyprus, Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya, the Western Kazakhstan excluded.
Europe has a rich diversity of wild plant and animal species many of which are unique to this continent and exist nowhere else in the world. On this page we provide a general overview about species conservation in Europe.
17 wrz 2014 · Fauna Europaea is Europe's main zoological taxonomic index, making the scientific names and distributions of all living, currently known, multicellular, European land and freshwater animals...
11 lis 2022 · In the list of animals that live in Europe below, you'll find pictures and facts on these and many other European species. Either click on an individual animal’s name for information on a specific species, or scroll down to browse all of the animals.
13 sie 2020 · Civilization and progress may have driven their wildlife to more remote areas but with a plethora of natural and semi-natural habitats—from tundras to maquis—Europe is home to interesting fauna too. Of the 270 species of mammals found in the continent, 78 are endemic.
