Department of Environment and Conservation (Western Australia)
The Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC for short) of Western Australia was founded on July 1, 2006. It emerged from the merger of the Department of Environment and the Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) . It was dissolved on June 30, 2013.
The DEC was subordinate to the Minister for the Environment and its main task was to protect and preserve nature. DEC was responsible for the administration and management of all nature reserves in Western Australia, including the National Parks , Marine Parks , Conservation Parks , State Forests , Timber Reserves , Nature Reserves , Marine Nature Reserves and Marine Management Areas . The authority was subject to more than 273,718 km² area (as of 2009), which corresponds to more than 10% of the total area of Western Australia .
DEC was subject to the following authorities:
- Environmental Protection Authority
- Conservation Commission of WA
- Keep Australia Beautiful Council
- Marine Parks and Reserves Authority
- Swan River Trust
- Waste Authority
- Contaminated Sites Committee
Web links
- Former website ( Memento from August 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual Report 2008 - 2009. (pdf) (No longer available online.) DEC, p. 10 , formerly in the original ; accessed on February 4, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
