Shane Sody
60 per cent tree loss: expert warning

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.

60 per cent tree loss: expert warning
Shane Sody
What you're telling the Government

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.

What you're telling the Government
Shane Sody
Hostile takeover

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.

Hostile takeover
Shane Sody
Takeover to Build Over

The State Government’s hasty swoop to take over a large swathe of your Park Lands is designed to clear 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 an upgraded golf course can downgrade your Park Lands.

Takeover to Build Over
Shane Sody
Protect Possum Park - gathering pace

Our “Possum Park Protection Platoon” is planning the next stage in our fight to protect Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands from State Government chainsaws that are threatening hundreds of trees in this unique urban forest.

Protect Possum Park - gathering pace

Purple pain?

Purple pain?

Do jacaranda trees suck?

According to Adelaide pollination ecologist and educator Bianca Amato, they do. She believes the well-loved trees, though pretty, are “ecological dead zones”.

Meanwhile, plane trees have also come under attack interstate, with Sydney’s city council phasing out their use across its streets and parks. Environmentalist Tim Flannery has labelled the species “about as much use to our wildlife as concrete posts”. Could the same happen here?

Motor racing near wetland?

Motor racing near wetland?

Park lovers have questioned why the State Government chose to return the Adelaide 500 car race to Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16) after award-winning biodiversity wetlands were created there.  

Birds and other wildlife have proliferated in the area since the $13 million, 3.2-hectare wetland was opened in the southern part of the Park in 2022.