Corporate Body
Victorian National Parks Association Inc (1952 - )
- From
- 1952
East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Functions
- Association, Society or Membership Organisation and Conservation or Environment
- Website
- https://vnpa.org.au/
- Reference No
- ABN: 34 217 717 593
- Location
- 10 Parliament Place, East Melbourne, Victoria 3002
Summary
The Victorian National Parks Association was established in 1952 to lobby for the creation of new national parks and improved management of existing ones. From their Web site, July 2002: "Since 1952, the Victorian National Parks Association has been the major force behind the creation of Victoria's outstanding system of National Parks and reserves."
Related entries
Archival resources
The University of Melbourne Archives
- Victorian National Parks Association Inc - Records, 1937 - 1991, 98/19; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
- Victorian National Parks Association Inc - Records, 1924 - 1995, 95/121; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
- Victorian National Parks Association Inc - Records, 1947 - 1995, 99/59; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
Published resources
Books
- Garden, Don, Conservation journeys: a short history of the VNPA (Carlton, Vic.: Victorian National Parks Association, 2012?), 70 pp. https://vnpa.org.au/publications/conservation-journeys-a-short-history-of-the-vnpa/. Details
- Saunders, D. S., The Victorian naturalist, journal of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria from volume 1 (1884) to volume 86 (1969): index to references to the national parks of Victoria and to proposed parks (Melbourne: National Parks Authority, 1970), 66 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Calder, Malcolm, 'The FNCV and the VNPA', The Victorian naturalist, 122 (2005), 336-9. Details
Resources
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-539991. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 24 July 2002, Last modified: 8 March 2023