What it means to be a ‘vulnerable’, ‘endangered’ or ‘critically endangered’ species!!!

Of close to 5,500 mammals assessed by the International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN), 22.2% are extinct or globally threatened. 1,141 species of these are ‘threatened’. The Cheetah may owe its name to the Sanskrit word Citraka referring to ‘spots’, but it’s an irony that in India, it’s only the name that lives on. In