We’re helping you learn about the plants in your Open Green Public Adelaide Park Lands, one species at a time
Today: the iconic golden wattle!
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.
It seems that State Government ministers need a fresh reminder about how many people value and love your Park Lands.
The Possum Park Protection Platoon is stepping up advocacy and action to head off the Government’s seizure of your Park Lands for profit.
The State Government’s hasty swoop to take over a large swathe of your Park Lands has cleared the way for a loss of biodiversity and large intrusive new buildings, infrastructure and more car parks on your Open Green Public spaces.
The move defies many of the State Government’s own rules and laws; so that an upgraded golf course can downgrade your Park Lands.
Efforts to protect and restore your Adelaide Park Lands will now be stepped up, after a huge three-month community effort finally convinced the State Government not to attack your Park Lands with a gigantic police barracks.
It remains to be seen whether this was merely an act of political expediency, or whether the State Government has had a change of heart, and will now start to Love Your Park Lands at other locations.
Premier Peter Malinauskas has been urged to consider the level of community support for your Open, Green Public Adelaide Park Lands before settling on a site to build new police barracks.
A thousand Park Lands supporters “provided cover” last Sunday for one of the threatened sites. Can you see yourself in the video?
City Council planning for the future of your Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16) has been hampered by the State Government's insistence that anachronistic carbon-emission motor sport must take priority in your Park.
To satisfy the State Government's devotion to carbon emission motor racing, a new draft plan envisages even more "new bitumen surfaces” within your Park.