Australia’s forests and forestry glossary

A species known to survive only in cultivation, in captivity or as a naturalised population well outside its past range, and that has not been recorded in its known and/or expected habitat at appropriate seasons anywhere in its past range, despite exhaustive surveys over a time frame appropriate to its life cycle 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, Threatened species, Vulnerable species/ecological community.