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.
Hundreds of survey respondents have identified the State Government as the biggest threat to your Adelaide Park Lands.
The 2024 Park Lands Survey results, from both supporters and the general public, will be used to plan our next initiatives, as we Explore, Inspire, Protect and Restore in your Open, Green, Public Park Lands.
Voting is underway in the South Australian Tree of the Year competition. If you appreciate any of your local large trees, you have until the end of March to lodge a vote at 20metretrees.org
Our suggestion: a 150-year-old river red gum in Park 15.
SA Labor has snubbed a series of Park Lands questions posed to the major candidates for a by-election next week in the inner suburban seat of Dunstan.
If you are in the Dunstan electorate, you might like to check (before polling day) on how each of the three main candidates responded to six simple questions about your Adelaide Park Lands.
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.
