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The NSW National Parks Establishment Plan 2008 ten years on

Posted by NPA NSWon August 31, 2018September 5, 2018in Spring 20181 Comment

What’s been achieved and where to next?

Rob Dick, Former head of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) land acquisition program 1996-2012.

Most existing NPWS terrestrial parks and reserves still require major additions and boundary fine-tuning to ensure their long-term viability. In many parts of NSW there are still few or no parks at all. Recognising this in 2008, the NSW Government sought to better articulate the rationale and future plans for a long-term ongoing program to continue building the NPWS system of terrestrial parks and reserves (the ‘parks system’). The resulting ‘NSW National Parks Establishment Plan 2008’¹(‘the Plan’) declared this task only half complete. The Plan is currently under Government review.

Githabul Tribe and Conservation Groups Reach Historic Agreement

Posted by NPA NSWon August 30, 2018August 30, 2018in Media ReleasesLeave a comment

The Githabul Tribe, Githabul Nation Aboriginal Corporation, Githabul Elders and representatives of conservation groups will be holding a press conference at 11.30 am on Thursday 30 August in Kyogle to launch their Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the management of Githabul Native Title Lands in the upper Clarence and Richmond Rivers.

NPA welcomes Government’s recognition of the importance of nature to regional NSW and calls for forests to be protected as a key pillar

Posted by NPA NSWon June 26, 2018June 28, 2018in Media ReleasesLeave a comment

The National Parks Association of NSW (NPA) has welcomed Sunday’s announcement by Minister for Tourism, Adam Marshall, to develop a nature-based tourism strategy to ‘unlock NSW’s multi-billion dollar backyard’, and calls on the Government to heed NPA’s Forests For All strategy to exit native forest logging on public land and use the forests to promote nature conservation to underpin nature-based tourism.

Koscuiszko National Park tourism plans risk further damage to fragile ecosystems

Posted by NPA NSWon April 20, 2018April 20, 2018in Media ReleasesLeave a comment

The NSW Government this week announced $27 million to upgrade and expand walking and cycling trails in Koscuiszko National Park (KNP), designed to boost tourism. The proposals however add to an increasing number of pressures on alpine ecosystems—sensitive and highly localised in Australia—says the National Parks Association of NSW (NPA).

NPA and NPWS, an amazing history – an even better future

Posted by NPA NSWon March 1, 2018March 1, 2018in Autumn 2018Leave a comment

^{Alix Goodwin,}^{Chief Executive Officer, National Parks Association of NSW}

In November 2017, Alix gave the following presentation at the National Parks 50:50 Forum hosted by Labor MP Penny Sharpe, at Parliament House

50 Park Proposals

Posted by NPA NSWon March 1, 2018March 5, 2018in Autumn 2018Leave a comment

Celebrating 50 years of the NPWS with 50 new national parks and additions

^{Grahame Douglas, Convenor, Landscape Conservation Forum}

2017 saw some celebratory events to recognise the 50 years since the establishment of the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) in NSW. This corresponds with NPA’s 60th celebrations. So one could speculate on how to best recognise the 50th year with a present: the establishment of 50 new parks and reserves.