More than 4,000 tonnes of sand has been delivered to your Park Lands to create playing courts for the world beach volleyball championships.

History enthusiast Graham Smith has joined an elite group - becoming only the fourth person to publish a book about your Adelaide Park Lands. Part proceeds from the sale of “Adelaide Park Lands – History Perspective” will go to the Adelaide Park Lands Association.

As V8 super cars whizz around your eastern Park Lands in late November, how many of the motor racing fans will be aware of the long history of both horse racing and motor racing in Victoria Park/ Pakapakanthi (Park 16)?

Here’s the most recent contribution to our series of Park Poetry.

It’s ”Veale Gardens” by Venesha Winter. Are you a Park poet?

Behind the newly-named ‘Northern Parklands’ lies a new legal framework that risks setting a dangerous precedent for the way all South Australians’ public Park Lands are governed, funded, and developed.

Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt is being urged not to rely solely on Walker Corporation to self-evaluate whether its 38-storey tower, under construction on Festival Plaza would be damaging to Adelaide’s national heritage values.

There are two opportunities in coming days to be a citizen scientist, recordimg biodiversity and/or measuring plant growth in your Adelaide Park Lands.

The final approval for “re-development” of a huge area of your Park Lands for a professional golf course has contained no conditions that would protect most of the 9,000 trees at risk.

Kaurna heritage protection, announced by the State Government, applies to only a small part of the targeted area, clearing the last legal obstacle to decimation of an urban forest.

A State Government promise that its new commercial Aquatic Centre will result in expanded Park Lands have been exposed as a hoax.

With construction nearing completion, the truth is becoming obvious.

When you look at the urban forest in the north-western part of your Adelaide Park Lands, do you see value in its biodiversity, its shade, its function as a carbon sink, its peace and tranquility?

Or, like the State Government, do you merely see a business opportunity?

Here’s a trick question. What sort of platypus grows in your Park Lands? They are hiding in plain sight, but in only a very few locations.

If you Love Your Park Lands, like we do, you might occasionally hear criticism from people who have latched onto a Park Lands myth.

In this article, we’re MYTH-BUSTING the claim that State Government investment is necessary to turn around the financial performance of Park Lands facilities.

Plans are being drawn up for five hundred new trees to be planted, next autumn, in Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16).

Pressure is mounting on Premier, Peter Malinauskas, to “read the room”; and choose an alternative site for a new golf course. There’s growing community awareness of the shocking impacts on your Park Lands tree canopy, and Kaurna heritage that would unfold if the Premier were to remain intransigent.

How much will it cost to rip out each one of the many trees that are destined for Government destruction in your Possum Park / Pirltawardli (Park 1 of your Park Lands)? And what is the financial value of each tree?

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Park Lands supporters have reached stage two.

This is the latest in our series of Park Poetry: a meditation by Jules Leigh Koch on his favourite Park Lands location.

What do you call a bird that is mottled brown and cream-coloured? This cute dabbling duck is often found near water in your Park Lands, but how did it get its common name?

The Walker Corporation is proceeding with construction of its planned 38-storey office tower on Festival Plaza in your Park Lands, without waiting for a National Heritage assessment, nor a pending decision from the Federal Environment Minister.