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What is Vulnerable Species
A vulnerable species is a species which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature that is threatened with extinction unless the circumstances that are threatening its survival and reproduction improve. Vulnerability is mainly caused by habitat loss or destruction of the species' home.
Adjective
susceptible to physical or emotional attack or harm.
"we were in a vulnerable position": in danger, in peril, in jeopardy, at risk, endangered, unsafe, unprotected, ill-protected, unguarded, open to attack,
attackable, assailable, exposed, wide open, undefended, unshielded, unfortified, unarmed,
without arms, without weapons, defenseless, easily hurt/wounded/damaged, powerless,
helpless, pregnable, resistless' exposed to, open to, wide open to, liable to, prone to
prey to, susceptible to, subject to, in danger of, at risk of, at the mercy of, an easy target for,
easily affected by, in the firing line, susceptive of. <>
BIOLOGY
a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. The species is the principal natural taxonomic unit, ranking below a genus and denoted by a Latin binomial, e.g. Wise Sapiens.