Multiple choice

In the IUCN Red Data List of Threatened Species, the word “Threatened” deals with

  1. Vulnerable species
  2. Endangered species
  3. Near threatened species
  4. Extinct species
  5. Critically endangered species

  1. only 1, 2 and 5

  2. only 1, 2, 3 and 5

  3. only 2, 3 and 5

  4. all of the above
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Explanation

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is the foremost authority on threatened species, and treats threatened species not as a single category, but as a group of three categories, depending on the degree to which they are threatened:

Vulnerable species

Endangered species
Critically endangered species “Threatened” and “Extinct” are two completely different terms. Hence, option 4 is deleted. Considering this difference, you might have marked option 2 as the right answer.

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