Living in Adelaide’s northern suburbs hasn’t stopped St Columba College students Alexa, Emily, and Olivia from speaking up for the Park Lands. Through conversations with fellow students, they collected sixty-eight petition signatures and shared why these spaces matter to their generation.
Sue Wincott shares the delight of spotting her first Australasian Grebe at Victoria Park/Pakapakanthi (Park 16). With adults diving nearby and a tiny youngster on its nest among the reeds, this memorable introduction to the wetland and the birdlife that makes it special.
What will the proposed MotoGP mean for community health? Margaret Brown looks beyond the economic arguments to the potential impacts of increased noise, air pollution, traffic congestion, tree loss and the disruption of green space. She argues that the health costs of bringing more motor racing into the Adelaide Park Lands deserve much greater scrutiny.
Australia loves sport. But should major sporting events come at the expense of our public green spaces? In Brisbane and Adelaide, communities are fighting to protect precious park lands from major developments. Different governments, different projects, but remarkably similar battles.
As the South Australian Government pushes ahead with plans to bring MotoGP to Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi, a leading birdwatcher says the State could be overlooking another growing tourism opportunity, one that depends on protecting our natural environment rather than building racetracks through it.
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.
