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Subspecies
balcanica
Exploitation
Balkans (poaching
outside protected areas)
Greece (poaching,
predation by feral dogs)
Hybridisation
with Alpine
chamois
Bulgaria (Rhodope
almost complete,
risk in Rila)
Potentially Balkans
carpatica Throughout range Throughout
range (livestock,
recreation)
Human
disturbance
Competition
(livestock or
introduced species) Disease
Habitat
loss
Greece Greece Albania
Throughout range
cartusiana Throughout range Throughout range
(livestock, Red deer,
Mouflon)
rupicapra
Austria (older males)
Germany, especially
Bavaria
Germany,
especially Bavaria
Italy (Mouflon)
Austria
(sarcoptic
mange,
pestivirus)
Greece
Stochastic
demographic and
environmental
events
Germany
tatrica Throughout range Slovakia Tatra National Park Slovakia
Table 4. Threats to Northern chamois in Europe by subspecies [1] .
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• Professor Marco Festa-Bianchet
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