Spring blossoms are already scenting the air and more days of sunshine keep popping up.
APA reporter Rhia Daniel headed to your south-eastern Park Lands last Saturday, to watch park-goers getting active as the weather warms.
It’s holiday time - so time to explore your Park Lands, especially the remarkable urban forest on Adelaide’s doorstep - before it’s drastically cut back. “It’s Not Just a Golf Course” is the event title. Explore it with us, on one of a dozen dates over the next few weeks.
More than 300 trees have been felled, so far, to make room for a three billion dollar hospital on your Park Lands, but much more tree destruction is on the way.
You’re invited! Please come to inspect, first-hand, the remarkable urban forest on Adelaide’s doorstep - before it’s drastically cut back. “It’s Not Just a Golf Course” is the event title. Explore it with us, on one of 15 dates over the next few weeks.
Fences or nets as high as a five-storey building will be required in your Adelaide Park Lands, to safeguard the public from wayward golf balls hit from a State Government driving range.
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.
The Adelaide City Council is about to decide whether to protect, or allow an attack on this massive three hectare site within your Adelaide Park Lands.
Sending a few emails before next Tuesday is your chance to save dozens of trees, and get a different, better location for a proposed $135 million megalith aquatic and commercial centre.
The City of Adelaide has won a grant of $198,000 from the State Government’s “Green Adelaide” agency to restore Botanic Creek in your eastern Park Lands.
The three-year upgrade will include a focus on biodiversity, creating new habitat and natural spaces, while acknowledging Kaurna cultural connections.
After more than a year of campaigning, and more than 5,100 signatures on a petition, this month is when both the State Government and the City Council, might decide to embrace what you’ve said that you want: a win-win for swimmers and your Park Lands.
This month is your last opportunity to persuade them.
The Trees for Life “Regenerate” program is back under way again in your Adelaide Park Lands.
You can Regenerate bushland, and help Regenerate yourself and others, with regular opportunities for bushcare, exploration, citizen science and cultural awareness.
program, which has run since about 2016, is designed to support the mental health and wellbeing of its participants and assist local biodiversity.
Trees For Life was among four community groups to receive funding from the City of Adelaide in June.