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Vulnerable

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Vulnerable

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Also known as vulnerable species, VU

IUCN conservation category

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Within Vinony's link graph, Vulnerable is referenced by 11,382 other articles, and connects out to International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN Red List and Critically Endangered.

It sits within the topics Biota by conservation status, Environmental conservation and IUCN Red List.

Its subject is documented across 62 Wikipedia language editions.

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IUCN Vulnerable species
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Encyclopedic overview

The African leopard is classed as a vulnerable species.

A vulnerable species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being threatened with extinction unless the circumstances that are threatening its survival and reproduction improve.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vulnerable” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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