Western Spanish ibex

Western Spanish ibex
Western Spanish ibex at Sierra de Gredos (Spain)
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Genus:	Capra
Species:	C. pyrenaica
Subspecies:	C. p. victoriae
Trinomial name
Capra pyrenaica victoriae Cabrera, 1911

The Western Spanish ibex or Gredos ibex (Capra pyrenaica victoriae) is a vulnerable goat endemic to Spain and Portugal. The Gredos ibex is endemic to:

• Sierra de Gredos
• Sierra de Francia
• Sierra de Guadarrama

as well as some other small mountain ranges in central Spain.

Remnant populations survive in the Picos de Europa as well as reintroduced ones, the largest population here is in the mountains north of Riano also other parts of the Cordillera Cantábrica. It is also found in southern Galicia near the border with Portugal

In Portugal 100 or so survive in the Peneda-Gerês National Park in northern Portugal, this population joins the Galician one. The Gredos Ibex has been reintroduced to many former areas for hunting purposes.