Australia’s forests and forestry glossary

As defined in the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, a process that threatens, or may threaten, the survival, abundance or evolutionary development of a native species or ecological community.

A key threatening process could cause a native species or ecological community to become eligible for inclusion in a threatened list, cause an already listed threatened species or threatened ecological community to become more endangered, or adversely affect listed threatened species or threatened ecological communities.

See Threatening process.