On the Chinese translation of "Vulnerable" in the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria
对IUCN红色名录等级中"Vulnerable"一词翻译的商榷

According to the English version of IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria(Version 3.1),the cur-rent Chinese translations of Vulnerable are not appropriate,which may mislead the public.We propose that the Vulnerable in this context means vulnerable to extinction,which means that a taxonomic unit already has a risk of extinction in the wild,but the risk is the lowest among the three threatened categories.