Extinct species
Mammals
Steppe lemming – c. 8000 BC
Arctic lemming – c. 8000 BC
Aurochs – c. 1000 BC
Beech Marten – 19th century
Brown Bear – c. 1000 (may be as early as 500 BC)
Cave Lion – c. 10,000 BC
Coypu – 1987 (non-native)
Gray whale – c. 500 BC
Gray wolf- c. 1700 AD
Irish Elk – c. 6000 BC
Eurasian Lynx – c. 400
Greater mouse-eared bat – 1990 (as resident)
Narrow-headed vole – c. 8000 BC
Root Vole – c. 1500 BC
Pika – c. 8000 BC
Saiga Antelope – c. 10,000 BC
Tarpan – c. 7000 BC
Walrus – c. 1000 BC
Wisent – c. 3000 BC
Wolverine – c. 6000 BC
Woolly Mammoth – c. 10,000 BC
Woolly Rhinoceros – c. 10,000 BC
I refuse to live on a land mass that does not support large carnivores.
The Auroch:
