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What is a threatened species?

What is a threatened species? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (ecology) Any species of organism that is vulnerable to extinction in the near future
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The US Fish and Wildlife Service will decide next month whether to declassify the bald eagle as a threatened species.
One threatened species, the lesser horseshoe bat, was only detected on organic farms.
Murray cod was listed as a threatened species under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act in July last year.
The eastern indigo snake, which is on the federal list of threatened species, and the gopher tortoise also live here.
In early May 1992, the National Marine Fisheries Service listed the Snake River chinook salmon as a threatened species.
Large firebreaks are being cut into the Park destroying habitat important to endangered and threatened species.

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