Carpathian wisent

The Carpathian wisent is an extinct subspecies of the European bison that inhabited the Carpathian Mountains, Moldavia and Transylvania regions of Europe.

Extinction

It began to die out about a hundred years earlier than its close relative, the Caucasian wisent and was hunted to extinction in the 19th century. The last known Carpathian wisent was shot in Máramaros County, Hungary in 1852.

Trivia

Starting in 2014, wisents of the closely related lowland subspecies were reintroduced into the southern Carpathians from Poland by Rewilding Europe and the World Wide Fund for Nature. The rewilding area hosted a population of 30 animals by the end of 2017.