The NSW government has cut 350 jobs from its Office of Environment and Heritage, and will close many programs in national parks, animal management and climate change research.

 

As a result of the cuts, some national parks will be unattended.

 

Environment Minister Robyn Parker said the cuts will be achieved by a combination of redundancy and natural attrition, saving $101 million by 2016.

 

Programs affected by the cuts include kangaroo culling programs, wilderness and wild river assessments, soil and salinity research, climate change and biodiversity programs, energy efficiency programs and greenhouse gas policy development.

 

'The transport emissions reduction policy and programs including policy work on electric vehicles, national transport sector emissions reduction and heavy vehicle emissions reduction have ceased.