by Shane Sody
Join us on National Tree Day - Sunday 27 July - to highlight some of the hundreds of trees at risk from State Government plans to "re-develop" the golf courses in Possum Park / Pirltawardli (Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands).
No-one (except perhaps golfer Greg Norman) knows which trees are destined for destruction.
However it is obvious - not denied by the Government - that hundreds would be chainsawed if the Government were to go through with its plan to spend tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, to turn this Park into a playground for multi-millionaire FIFO golfing superstars.
Each dot is a tree. This City Council tree map makes it obvious that any re-alignment of golf fairways, any new buildings, car parks etc would certainly require the destruction of many of these decades-old trees.
LIV golf is only for three days, but building new commercial facilities, restaurants, bars and car parks would diminish this Open, Green, Public Park forever.
Help us highlight what's at stake here. We'll provide you with the printed messaging and the means to simply put the messages where they belong - on the trees of Possum Park / Pirltawardli.
APA’s Ian Buckland - part of the Possum Park Protection Platoon - with the first of many trees to be tagged in your Possum Park / Pirltawardli (Park 1)
Spend an hour or two on National Tree Day - working in pairs with members of the Possum Park Protection Platoon - to help the trees of Possum Park speak for themselves; and plead for their lives.
Where: Starting at Montefiore Hill (corner of Strangways Terrace and Montefiore Rd) we’ll fan out through the golf courses in Possum Park / Pirltawardli (Park 1) working in pairs.
When: Gather at 11am to collect materials and get instructions. We’ll finish at 1pm. If there is sufficient interest, we’ll schedule a second shift from 2pm to 4pm.
Planet Ark's National Tree Day started in 1996 and has grown into Australia's largest community tree planting and nature care event. It's a call to action for all Australians to get their hands dirty and give back to the community.
In most places, volunteers will be planting trees; but here in your Adelaide Park Lands we’ll be trying to save trees that were planted decades ago.
