As Kermit the Frog once said "it’s not easy being green”.
It’s also not easy for frogs to be seen. But they are here, in your Adelaide Park Lands.
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.
For five years, the Adelaide Park Lands Association has been lobbying the City Council for permission to re-green one or more disused patches of bitumen in your Park Lands.
This Tuesday 13 August, one re-greening opportunity will come to a vote.
Please - contact City Councillors now, to ensure the project gets the go-ahead.
A City Council report on biodiversity has revealed the success of re-greening and habitat restoration in selected parts of your Park Lands.
The first survey of Park Lands biodiversity in 20 years identified new species of native bees, as well three species of microbats, an eel, and the re-emergence of rare grasses and wildflowers.