Next week is a time to reflect and give thanks for the few urban forests that remain in your Open, Green, Public Adelaide Park Lands.

On the International Day of Forests, will the State Government re-think its plans to destroy one of Adelaide’s few urban mini-forests?

A major upgrade is on the way for the popular “City Dirt” bike tracks in Park 20 of your Adelaide Park Lands.

Questions have been raised about the future of the Bicentennial Conservatory in the Adelaide Botanic Garden.

Despite a Strategic Plan calling for a “re-imagining” of the Conservatory as a “Martian biodome” the Garden’s Director says “there are no concrete plans at the moment” to replace the building’s tropical plants.

A new chapter has been written in the playbook for how professional lobbyists can take over and commercialise your Park Lands.

To turn an Open, Green, Public space into an area subservient to professional sport, all you need is two State Government heavyweights on your side.

Work is expected to begin later this year on renovating and partially re-building the kiosk in Rymill Park / Murlawirrapurka (Park 14) at the start of what would be a 21-year lease.

On the eastern side of your Adelaide Park Lands, there’s a by-election in the State electorate of Dunstan on 23 March.

We’ve posed six Park Lands questions to each of the three main candidates, so you can evaluate their responses.

Kadaltilla / the Park Lands Authority has signed off on new five-year extensions to each one of eight different privately-leased areas of your Park Lands.

Controversy has erupted over a City Council decision to reject a new permanent fence around a soccer field on your Ellis Park / Tampawardli (Park 24).

Accusations from the Premier, levelled at the City Council, have diverted attention from the question of whether your Park Lands should be for community sport, or for commercial, professional sport.

Premier Peter Malinauskas has confirmed that another area, legally part of your Park Lands, will soon be handed over to private developers.

There’s been no public consultation, no tender, nothing except secret negotiations behind closed doors, but the heirs and shareholders of the late Lang Walker are about to become much richer by building over land taken from your Park Lands.

Who likes fresh olives? It turns out that some of your Park Lands possums really love them, and others don’t.

Here’s the latest report from our Park Lands possum researcher, Tara McKenzie.

Some Adelaide City Councillors have belatedly realised that fences around sporting facilities in your Park Lands discourage public access.

It remains to be seen whether this newfound awareness will translate into any policy changes to encourage access to your Open, Green, Public heritage.