In recent weeks, your eyes might have been drawn to these distinctive yellow blossoms high in the canopy in one or more parts of your Adelaide Park Lands.
If so, you’ve noticed the largest tree in the Grevillea family: the Silky Oak.
Fences or nets as high as a five-storey building will be required in your Adelaide Park Lands, to safeguard the public from wayward golf balls hit from a State Government driving range.
A mockup plan for a new championship golf course in Possum Park / Pirltawardli (Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands) has indicated a minimum canopy loss of 54% from the Park’s 9,000 trees.
The State Government is now under pressure to defend or justify its looming tree massacre, being planned to cater for a small number of multi-millionaire FIFO golfers.
This is the consultation that the State Government doesn't want you to have!
“Stop the Chop” Community forum, Sunday 21 September. Hear the facts, put your questions to a panel of experts. Find out what’s at risk from State Government bulldozers and chainsaws.
An international golf course designer and LIV Golf supporter has sounded an alarm about the prospect of losing thousands of trees from the picturesque North Adelaide golf courses in your Park Lands.
Here’s the most recent contribution to our series of Park Poetry.
It’s ”Veale Gardens” by Venesha Winter. Are you a Park poet?
The final approval for “re-development” of a huge area of your Park Lands for a professional golf course has contained no conditions that would protect most of the 9,000 trees at risk.
Kaurna heritage protection, announced by the State Government, applies to only a small part of the targeted area, clearing the last legal obstacle to decimation of an urban forest.