Management plans

Estate managed by the Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory includes 85 parks and reserves, with 33 joint management parks.

The estate is a vast area of land around 50,600 km2 and is made up of tenure declared under the following Acts:

• Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1976
• Nitmiluk (Katherine Gorge) National Park Act 1989
• Cobourg Peninsula Aboriginal Land, Sanctuary and Marine Park Act 1981.

Statutory requirements

There is a statutory requirement to develop a management instrument for declared parks and reserves such as a:

• plan of management or
• joint management plan.

This requirement must be consistent with the relevant Act’s management principles, including the following values:

• biological
• natural
• cultural
• recreational
• tourism.

Below are all management plans developed for the parks estate.

The list includes non-statutory management plans for lands managed by the Parks and Wildlife Commission but not declared under section 12 of the Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1976.

Have your say

Read more about plans open for public comment, including:

• plans in development
• draft documents that have been released for public consultation
• instructions for making a submission.

Management plans

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