Australian Endangered Species: Euca- lypts. 1981. (Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, Special Public.No. 5). 61 photogrs. (black & white). 61 distribution maps. 6 tabs. 2 figs. III,139 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.

Contents: List of tables and figures/ Introduction (General characteristics of species distribution/ Rarity of species/ Features ofspecies of quite restricted distribution)/ Causes of reduction ofeucalypt populations/ Threatened eucalypt ecosystems/ Means for ensuringsurvival of threatened species/ Unusual provenances/ Biologicalconsiderations for species with restricted distribution/ Action to secure preservation of endangered eucalypt species/ Australias endangered eucalypts/ Index. - It appears that no single eucalypt species has yet been lost due to the agency of Europeans. However,several species are in a highly precarious position and many are vulnerable in the light of the present day pace of change. We can predict that other species in fifty or hundred years time may be in thesame precarious position although secure enough for the present.Attention needs to be directed to those species in a very vulnerablestate or clearly at risk in the next few decades. The status of theremaining eucalypt species should be monitored to indicate where andwhen species protection is necessary. No doubt for some species therewill not be any threat in the foreseeable future, but for perhaps half of the total array of eucalypt species, developments in the next centurymay reduce them to critical population levels.