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What criteria should one use in categorizing a species as threatened?

The following criterions are used by IUCN to categorise species as threatened species:

a) Rate of the population decline


b) Geographic region


c) Population size is studied


d) It is studied whether the population lives in a restricted area or not.


e) Whether the quantities analysis show high risk of extinction or not.


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