Loving and blogging about your Adelaide Park Lands
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“MotoGP has not raced on a street circuit since 1982, and the reason for that was that riders kept dying.” As Adelaide plans to bring MotoGP back onto city streets, safety concerns could have profound consequences for the surrounding Park Lands.
For 16-year-old Sophie, the Adelaide Park Lands are more than a park — they’re her backyard, her running track and part of her home.
For almost a decade, Trees for Life’s Regenerate program has been bringing people together in the Adelaide Park Lands through Bushcare, nature, culture and connection. We talk with Tricia Curtis about how caring for nature can also mean caring for ourselves—and why the Park Lands are such an important place for community wellbeing.
For more than 25 years, local photographer Jeff Richards has been capturing the Adelaide Park Lands — from the grand trees and wetlands of Pakapakanthi / Victoria Park to quiet trails, waterways and the changing play of light across the landscape. Jeff kindly allowed the Adelaide Park Lands Association to use one of his beautiful images for our recent Stop the Chop campaign banner. In our latest…
by Renate Homburg The machines came in the night stealthy, slinking, stinking reeking of destruction and corruption manned by greedy, crooked men Creatures of the peaceful forest awoken soft and stark from slumber grabbed, struggling, blinking into unforgiving daylight Old homes viciously torn down pulverised, vandalised gentle beings roughly displaced brutal disregard for their lives With dollar…
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…
Dr Doug McEvoy AM has warned that the proposed MotoGP in the Adelaide Park Lands would come at a significant cost to the community and the environment. Speaking at a community rally at Victoria Park/Pakapakanthi on behalf of the South East City Residents Association (SECRA), Dr McEvoy said the proposal was "the wrong project, in the wrong place, pushed through in the wrong way." He outlined the…
Take a break and savour the changing seasons with the Adelaide Park Lands Association! Join an expert guide on a two-hour journey through one of Adelaide’s most historically rich urban parklands. Nestled along the River Torrens (Karrawirra Parri), Karra Wirra holds deep significance as a Kaurna gathering and fishing spot, a source of stone for early colonial architecture, and a living museum of…
by Jules Leigh Koch after a day of hanging upside down the bats leave Botanic Park fully mobilised and self fueled their colony of 20,000 plus swarm into the evening sky like an inland Tsunami endless wing formations are patterned overhead their road rage chatter echoes out deterring birds of prey as they fly along the Torrens Valley looking for pollen and native fig trees while others find only…
Adelaide City Councillor Patrick Maher has taken a forensic look at claims circulating from the page formerly endorsed by SA Labor—and says the facts tell a very different story. His conclusion? The State is spending $45 million of public money on a project that: * reduces public access to the golf course, * has no publicly released economic analysis, * no publicly released market demand analysis,…
