Mountaineer Semir Kardović from Rožaj on the social network Instagram he posted photos and a video fox cubs, which he recorded on the mountains in that area.
Kardović is a lover of nature as a hobby, but as a professional guide, he monitors and protects all animal and plant species in the Rožaj region. In that region, he also leads the recovery program of the Balkan lynx, which is included in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and classified as critically endangered. This means that it is threatened with extinction in the wild, where the number of mature individuals is estimated at less than 50.
The Balkan lynx is the smallest and most endangered subspecies of the Eurasian lynx.
The fox is one of the 65 species of mammals that live in Montenegro. According to the newsletter on Montenegro prepared by the Center for Emigrants in 2011, the fox is one of the carnivores whose population has been significantly thinned out.

According to the Hunting Development Program for the period from 2014 to 2024, the number of foxes on April 01.04.2014, 9.239. was XNUMX individuals.
"Given that the number of foxes now stands at 8.280 individuals, a slight decline in population can be observed. The reason for this lies in the fact that the users of the hunting grounds kept the number of foxes as a predator at a tolerable level in their hunting grounds," the Proposal reads. documents before adoption at the end of 2014.
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