The Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management ( no, Direktoratet for naturforvaltning, DN) was

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

's national governmental body for preserving Norway's

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, including establishing and regulating

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 and other protected areas until 2013 when it was merged into the

Norwegian Environment Agency The Norwegian Environment Agency ( no, Miljødirektoratet) was created on 1 July 2013 through a merger of the Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management and the Norwegian Climate and Pollution Agency.Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

and employed about 250 employees. It concerned itself with designating areas for protection, monitoring and preserving biological diversity, as well as setting and enforcing fish and hunting quotas. Directors included

Helge Vikan Helge or Helgi is a Scandinavian, German, and Dutch mostly male name. The name is derived from Proto-Norse ''Hailaga'' with its original meaning being ''dedicated to the gods''. For its Slavic version, see Oleg. Its feminine equivalent is Olga. ...

(1985–1988),

Peter Johan Schei Peter Johan Schei (5 January 1945 - 7 April 2022) was a Norwegian biologist and civil servant. He was cand.real. by education. From 1989 to 1995 he served as director of the Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management after four years as assistin ...

(1989–1995),

Stein Lier-Hansen Stein Lier-Hansen (born 9 May 1955) is a Norwegian organizational director and politician for the Labour Party. From 1988 to 1993 he was the general secretary of the Norwegian Association of Hunters and Anglers, an organization with more than 1 ...

(1995–2000) and

Janne Sollie Janne Sollie (born 27 March 1959) is a Norwegian civil servant. A ''sivilagronom'' by education, she was hired in the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority as a head of department in 1987. From 1990 to 1991 she worked as an advisor in the Ministr ...

(2001–unknown).

External links

Directorate for Nature Management English website
{{authority control Nature conservation in Norway Organisations based in Trondheim National park administrators Ministry of Climate and Environment (Norway) Defunct government agencies of Norway