Australia’s forests and forestry glossary
Critically endangered species/ecological community
A native species/ecological community facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild in the immediate future. One of the categories of threatened species/ecological communities defined in the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
See Ecological community, Endangered species/ecological community, Extinct, Extinct in the wild, Threatened ecological community, Threatened species, Vulnerable species/ecological community.