The National Parks and Wildlife Service South Australia (NPWSSA), formerly a

government agency A government or state agency, sometimes an appointed commission, is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an administrati ...

known as National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) and later a service under variously named government departments and branded National Parks and Wildlife and National Parks South Australia, is a

South Australian Government The Government of South Australia, also referred to as the South Australian Government, SA Government or more formally, His Majesty’s Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of South Australia. It is modelled o ...

service within

Department for Environment and Water The Department for Environment and Water (DEW) is a department of the Government of South Australia. Created on 1 July 2012 by the merger of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Department for Water as the Department of ...

, responsible for

national park A national park is a nature park, natural park in use for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state dec ...

s in the state of

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

. The National Parks and Wildlife Service was an agency founded in 1972 under the ''

National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 Protected areas of South Australia consists of protected areas located within South Australia and its immediate onshore waters and which are managed by South Australian Government agencies. As of March 2018, South Australia contains 359 sepa ...

'' to manage

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s previously under the control of a range of agencies within government. The NPWS is reported as being a division of the following government departments until September 1993: the Department for the Environment until 11 May 1981, the Department of Environment and Planning until 1992 and the Department of Environment and Land Management. The NPWS was reportedly disbanded when the Department of Environment and Land Management changed its name to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in September 1993. The use of its name and logo continued until the introduction of a new logo and the accompanying name "National Parks and Wildlife" in early 1997. As of 2018, services originally provided by the NPWS were being provided by the

under the brand of "National Parks South Australia". In 2019, the service was branded National Parks and Wildlife Service South Australia, a name it has retained , using the initialism NPWSSA. It administers around 360 parks across South Australia that are subject to the ''National Parks and Wildlife Act'' and National Parks Regulations.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:National Parks and Wildlife Service (South Australia) Former government agencies of South Australia Nature conservation in Australia 1972 establishments in Australia 1993 disestablishments in Australia

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