What will it take to clean up the centrepiece of your Adelaide Park Lands?
The River Torrens / Karrawirra Pari has been looking shabby in recent weeks, but there’s a lot going on behind the scenes to improve the river’s health.
CONTENTS
1. Editorial: From the President: The Movement to Stop the Chop Is Growing
2. Members are Ready for Battle: Park Lands Association Forum
3. Park Poetry - Flying foxes (Fruit Bats)
4. Pic of the Month – Dr Bird Nerd
5. Charles Sturt and Prospect Council Join the Campaign for Your Lands
6. The Pen Is Mightier than! 28,000 signatures and counting
7. The First Hints of Spring: Guided Walk Through Red Gum Park / Karra Wirra
8. OPINION: Time to Debunk Some Misinformation
9. SE City Residents Raise Concerns About Proposed MotoGP in the Park Lands
10. The Mosquito vs the Elephant: Save Festival Plaza Update
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 petition, seeking a win-win for swimmers and your Park Lands, has reached the critical milestone of 5,000 signatures.
The Premier, Peter Malinauskas, and the Member for Adelaide, Lucy Hood, have been advised of the overwhelming community demand for a win-win outcome. Now, we need your help to deliver the same message to the City Council.
Your Park Lands Need your support on the morning of Sunday 9 July.
On that morning, please help us plant up to 4,800 of these Park Lands supporters into the grass of Denise Norton Park/ Pardipardinyilla (Park 2).
“Plant to Protect” - to show how many people have signed up for a win-win: demanding both a new Aquatic Centre on a brownfield site; and to fully protect this Park.
The City of Adelaide has become the first major sponsor to recommit to the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize, by including a renewed $15,000 sponsorship in its 2023-24 budget.
See what other Park Lands matters were dealt with, in what the Council describes as a budget to “support future sustainability and City pride.”
Rewilded parts of your Adelaide Park Lands have been in the spotlight recently, after a successful community effort protect an area that had been targeted for destruction.
SA rewilding facilitator Tiffany Schultz speaks to APA’s Carla Caruso about the need for “flourishing ecosystems” in your Park Lands and beyond.
Debate about a new Adelaide Aquatic Centre has dragged on for many years. However in the next three months it will come down to a simple choice.
Will the State Government and the City Council Restore and Protect? Or will they combine to Restore and Attack? One outcome would be 28 times better than the other.