The State Administration Database

Section for the Management of Species

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01.01.2014* Founding by complex reorganization

Name: Section for the Management of Species
Short name: VILT
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Section
Located: 301 Oslo

Tasks (source: www.regjeringen.no):
- Management of predatory animals.
- Management of wild animals, including the management of wild deer, wild reindeer, arctic foxes and sea birds (management of the latter is also dealt with by the Department for Sea and Pollution control).
- Work with the knowledge platform for predatory animals and other wild species.
- Developing strategies related to predatory animals and other wild species. Following up with predatory animal centres and wild reindeer centres.
- Coordinating work with prioritised species.
- Handling questions relating to Sami that do not belong to a specific area of results.
- The Bern Convention.
- The Bonn Convention.
- Legislation: The Norwegian Wildlife Act and the Norwegian Nature Diversity Act.

01.01.2016* Change of name

Name: Section for the Management of Species
Short name: Artseksjonen

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

Remarks

* = If a date is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies that the date is not confirmed.

* = If a name is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies a direct translation from Norwegian to English. The translation is thus not necessarily the official one (if any exists at all).

Comment to the change-of-name event: Sometimes the old and new name is the same. This occur when the translation to English haven’t taken into consideration minor Norwegian name change.