NT Parks and Wildlife have called for additional police assistance and will dish out extra fines for disobeying COVID-019 rules following a spate of issues with argumentative visitors to Litchfield National Park last weekend.

Parks and Wildlife executive director Sally Egan said park rangers had endured a “difficult weekend” in Litchfield National Park.

“Unfortunately, this weekend just gone there was a lot of non-compliance and visitors ignoring rangers and arguing with rangers,” she said on Mix 104.9.

“People parked illegally and refused to leave and generally gave rangers a bad time.   

“It was an extremely busy weekend and it placed a heavy demand on us.”

Ms Egan said the extensive visitation rates since reopening national parks on May 1 had placed a strain on NT Parks and Wildlife resources.

“We will ask people to leave if we can’t resolve the situation any other way and we’ll ramp up to fines and some sort of legislative impost if it gets into an even worse situation,” she said.  

“What we’re going to do going forward over the next couple of weekends is we’re going to get the police in again to help us and back us up.

“We’re all pretty busy so it is unfortunate we have to keep requesting police support.”  

Reports of visitors disobeying regulation rules were also received with visitors bringing glass bottles to the pools and jumping from them, against multiple signs and warnings not to do so.

Find out information on parks and reserves on the NT Parks and Wildlife website.

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