Australia’s forests and forestry glossary

A species for which there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died, or for which exhaustive surveys in known or expected habitats throughout its historical range have failed to record an individual over a time frame appropriate to its lifecycle and form. One of the categories of threatened species defined in the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

See Critically endangered species/ecological community, Endangered species/ecological community, Extinct in the wild, Threatened species, Vulnerable species/ecological community.