Butterfly conservation advocates say a rare Chequered Copper Butterfly colony “will not survive” in Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16) if the State Government goes ahead with plans for a Grand Prix motorcycle circuit alongside its habitat.
No tree in your Adelaide Park Lands is significant enough to be safe from State Government plans to bulldoze Parks for temporary, elite FIFO sports events.
A rally on Saturday 28 February might be your last opportunity to prevent irreversible losses within a massive 90 hectares of your Adelaide Park Lands.
The Adelaide City Council has joined APA’s call to Premier, Peter Malinauskas to release the hit list of 585 trees that he says he wants to destroy in Possum Park / Pirltawardli (Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands).
The SA Labor Opposition has joined with The Greens with commitments to protect Adelaide riverbank Park Lands from the current re-zoning threats of the Marshall Liberal Government.
The pledges throw a spotlight on the City Council, which in September took the politically-controversial step of offering to collaborate with the Liberal State Government in its push to confiscate Open Green Public Park Lands.
The State Government has snubbed an opportunity to explain to you why it wants to destroy hundreds of trees in your Helen Mayo Park (Park 27)
The Save Helen Mayo Park Picnic Rally this Sunday at 12 noon is your chance to express a view: trees, or a stadium for this scenic location on the Torrens riverbank?
APA has been lobbying since 2009 to have the Adelaide Park Lands declared a State Heritage Area.
Despite a positive recommendation from the State Heritage Council in 2018, the State Government has kept the idea on "pause" now for almost three years. So it is with a sense of amazement that we read of a new push to heritage-list not the Park Lands, but a patch of bitumen that has been despoiling one Park for the past few decades.
The Adelaide City Council is contemplating removal of remnant native vegetation to accommodate more car parking. It’s also missing an opportunity to restore a large slice of your Adelaide Park Lands to 'Open, Green Public' status.
The Council is refusing to consider any site other than a Park Lands site, for a new Aquatic centre.
The head of a State Government agency trying to make Adelaide “greener” and “wilder” has urged community groups to be "shouting from the rooftops" about the Government's "ridiculous" plans to turn over 70 hectares of river-front Adelaide Park Lands for development.
Professor Chris Daniels advocates “re-wilding” the River Torrens which puts him in conflict with Government plans for massive new “Riverbank” buildings on Open Green Public Park Lands.
One of the currently-proposed attacks on your Adelaide Park Lands is the Government's plan to put a new Women's and Children's hospital on the last Open Green Public Park Lands space on the North Terrace side of Park 27.
Now doubts have been raised about whether this site in your Park Lands is suitable for purpose.
Enjoy live music, coffee, and a picnic lunch, as the decision-makers stake out positions: a Park or a Stadium on the Torrens Riverbank?
Helen Mayo Park - part of the world-unique, National Heritage-listed Adelaide Park Lands - is threatened by the Premier's proposed $660 million stadium - what he calls the "Riverbank Arena"..
Come and show that you #LoveYourParkLands, to send a message to the Premier.
How many tall buildings does it take to “activate” a Park waterfront? Re-zoning is the fastest way to hasten the disappearance of Adelaide’s world-unique Park Lands. Current Government re-zoning plans represent the largest-ever attack on your Park Lands. It will happen unless you speak up by 27 October.
