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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.