by Shane Sody
Our “Possum Park Protection Platoon” is planning the next stage in the battle to protect Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands from State Government chainsaws threatening hundreds of trees in a unique urban golf course forest.
Hundreds of Park Lands supporters came together on the steps of State Parliament House, on World Environment Day, 5 June.
Speakers included APA’s Shane Sody and Loine Sweeney, State politicians Rob Simms and Tammy Franks, and City Councillor Keiran Snape.
Why? Because it’s not just about a golf course
The Premier, Peter Malinauskas, has a vision: that your Park Lands must be profit centres, and that therefore Open, Green, Public land (as well as trees and biodiversity) must be subservient, or sacrificed to money-making imperatives, such as LIV golf.
The Premier has confirmed that the project (and the ongoing effects on your Park Lands) would be guided by commercial (not environmental) imperatives.
The three North Adelaide golf courses (North course, South course, and Par 3 course) are all within the 70-hectare Possum Park / Pirltawardli (Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands). It’s one of the most densely forested parts of your Park Lands, with an estimated 9,000 trees.
The density of the forest canopy makes it inevitable that about 600 of these trees (maybe more) would be destroyed in any move to relocate fairways, tees, and greens.
Further Park damage would be caused by increased car parking areas, and new commercial buildings to generate additional revenue streams for proposed lessees.
What can you do?
Join more than 1,100 others who’ve signed the petition: https://www.change.org/p/protect-possum-park-pete
Join the social media photo bombing campaign
Distribute leaflets
Join the “Possum Park Protection Platoon”
See more details on each of these options here: www.adelaide-parklands.asn.au/#act
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Related articles here: https://www.adelaide-parklands.asn.au/golf/#read
The author of this article, Shane Sody, is the immediate Past President of the Adelaide Park Lands Association, and the editor of the semi-monthly newsletter, "Open Green Public".
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