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."

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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
  • Johnson, Dick, The alps at the crossroads : the quest for an alpine national park in Victoria (Melbourne: Victorian National Parks Association, 1974), 207 pp. 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

  • '21 Years of Conservation [List of VNPA office bearers and councillors 1952 to 1973]', Newsletter, Victorian National Parks Association (1973), 4-5, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3026599035. Details
  • Calder, Malcolm, 'The FNCV and the VNPA', The Victorian naturalist, 122 (2005), 336-9. Details

Resources

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