In our series, Know Your Park Lands Plants, we introduce you to some of the myriad species that populate your Adelaide Park Lands.
Today, we look at a grass that’s shaped like a windmill.
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.
A rally on Saturday 28 February might be your last opportunity to prevent irreversible losses within a massive 90 hectares of your Adelaide Park Lands.
A major re-write of the over-arching Park Lands Management Strategy suggests no limitation on the number or size of new buildings that might keep taking away parts of your Open, Green, Public spaces.
Before consultation on this draft document closes on 9 August, you can endorse our submission or make your own.
Earlier this month, Adelaideans endured the city’s coldest July morning in more than a century
Despite the record-breaking chill, it certainly hasn’t caused your Park Lands to go into hibernation.
Annual winter event Illuminate Adelaide is celebrating “art, light, music and technology” until the 21st.
Labor MP for Adelaide, Lucy Hood, is attempting to deflect attention from the State Government's recent attacks on your Park Lands, by claiming State credit for actions taken before she was born.
Highlighting decades-old Park restorations, while failing to acknowledge any recent Park Lands attacks has been described by the Deputy Lord Mayor as “Olympic-level gymnastics”.