Agency Details

Manage the State's National Parks, Reserves and wildlife resources, conduct scientific studies, prepare management plans, advise on land use policy and preserve sites significant to aboriginal and European heritage of Tasmania.

The Department was created by a process of amalgamation as part of a general reorganisation of the Tasmanian State Service on 17 July 1989. It comprised Parks and Wildlife from the Department of Lands, Parks and Wildlife, the Administrative Services Division of the Department of the Environment and the Heritage Section of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet. On 1 July 1990 the Department assumed administrative control of the Tasmanian Botanical Gardens. On 18 February 1992, following a change of Government, the Inland Fisheries Commission also came under the administrative control of the Department, transferred from the Department of Primary Industry.

On 2 February 1993 the Department was amalgamated with the Department of Environment and Planning to create the Department of Environment and Land Management (DELM). The Parks and Wildlife Service became a division within DELM.

Parks and Wildlife Service website

Abandoned Lands Act 1973 (until 1992), Aboriginal Relics Act 1975, Botanical Gardens Act 1950, Ida Bay Railway Act 1977 (from 1992, Mountain Park Act 1958 (until 1992), National Park and Florentine Valley Act 1950 (in so far as it relates to the validity of proclamations relating to the Mount Field National Park), National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970, National Trust of Australian (Tasmania) Act 1975, Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority Act 1987, Whales Protection Act 1988

SR1989/114.

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