In this part of Europe, Slovenia is the only country where healthy populations of the three species of beasts such as: lynx (Lynx lynx), bear (Ursus arctos) and wolf (Canis lupus) can still be found. The area of Javornik and Snežnik is inhabited by all of the three species as well as many others: different species of deer, a wild boar, a wild cat, a fox and so on.