European bison in forest clearing

Mammalia · Artiodactyla

European Bison (Wisent)

Bison bonasus

The heaviest surviving wild land mammal in its temperate forest range, roaming primeval mixed deciduous broadleaf and conifer woodlands.

Realm
Terrestrial
Conservation status
NTNear Threatened
Data provenance

This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.

Method and version
Evidence snapshot

A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. No eligible records in this sample.

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