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!
There is plenty of evidence about:
the importance of protecting mature trees, and any city’s tree canopy;
that South Australians want to see their Adelaide Park Lands protected;
that the international LIV Golf tour is financially unsustainable and on the brink of collapse.
Yet the State Government refuses to see.
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.
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.