What Does National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) Mean?
The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is pat of the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage in Australia. The NPWS oversees more than 850 national parks and reserves covering more than 7 million hectares of land. This comprises about 8% of the land area of New South Wales. The NPWS is committed to the conservation of the biodiversity and cultural heritage of the environment that it oversees.