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Click here to become an NPA member
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The benefits of becoming a member of NPA include:

  • Access to an activity program comprising;
    • Over 1000 bushwalks per year
    • Bush Biodiversity Surveys,
    • Marine Biodiversity Surveys
    • Bush regeneration
    • Members Social nights
    • Environmental talks and presentations
    • Campaigning
    • Volunteering for conservation
    • Specialised activities, including cycling trips, canoeing trips, and environmental clean-up days

  • Meeting others who share a passion for the bush and protecting the natural environment
  • The bi-monthly National Parks Journal
  • Conservation news updates
  • Discounts at over 30 retail, accommodation and adventure outlets.

New South Wales is one of the most environmentally diverse areas on earth and NPA works hard to ensure it remains this way. We are fortunate to still have rainforests, deserts, mangrove swamps, eucalypt forests, alpine herbfields, coastal heaths and grasslands. Yet with only 6% of our state protected as national parks and nature reserves, our biodiversity is under pressure.

Today we are more aware of our environment than ever before. Yet still well over 60,000ha (or 120,000 football fields) of native vegetation is still being cleared by bulldozers in NSW every year.

National Parks Association of NSW was formed in 1957 as a non-profit, non-government charity. Since then NPA has been working towards the protection of our natural areas and limiting the decline in biodiversity. NPA was established when there was no system of national parks in Australia, and spent its first years lobbying the state government to create the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service.

Our work today continues, especially in the areas of achieving protection for our western woodlands and coastal marine areas. Currently about 2% of NSW coastal waters are protected as marine parks, and only 1% of western woodlands in NSW are protected as national park or nature reserve.


NPA is campaigning for a comprehensive system of well-managed marine sanctuaries that protect at least 20% of all marine habitat types across NSW.

We are also campaigning for greater protection of vulnerable and endangered marine species such as the grey nurse shark by ensuring their critical habitats are protected, and for better protection for our precious western woodlands.

NPA is also proud to run the largest bushwalking program in the Southern Hemisphere. We offer our Members over 800 bushwalks each year – a fantastic opportunity to get out and enjoy the very thing we are working to protect – the beautiful natural areas of NSW. Our walks are led by 200 experienced walks leaders We invite you to try out an NPA walk if you wish, before you join. You will find many walks to choose from in the our bimonthly NPA Activities Program.

We exist today through the help of our Members, and we invite you to join us.

Click here to become an NPA member
or click here to join our NPA partners' scheme.

Or contact our administration officer by email or phone with your name, postal address and/or fax number so we can send you a membership application.

Our Office Co-ordinator, Suji: is keen to hear from you.

The phone number is 9299 0000.

Photo by Henry Gold
Photo by Henry Gold
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