Tas parks management funding drops

Conservation groups are outraged by the 2016/17 Tasmanian budget which strips funding from parks and wildlife management.

The $5.5 billion budget, released on Thursday, shows funding of $72.1 million in 2015/16 will drop to $67.7 million by 2019/20.

"Tasmania now trades on the identity and brand our national parks and wilderness areas of the state, but this budget demonstrates a government reluctance to properly resource the people charged with protecting, managing and restoring these areas," Wilderness Society spokesman Vica Bayley said.