Adelaide Park Lands Association

Premier Peter Malinauskas can capture the economic benefits of the LIV Golf tourism drawcard, while also protecting trees and public access to your Adelaide Park Lands. How? By choosing an alternative site to build a new championship golf course. Here’s the first option he could consider. https://lnkd.in/gqvysMdu

Our newsletter of 16 April has stories that celebrate natural features in your Park Lands (trees, birds, creeks) - and a feature on the closing days of the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize - but it's the controversial lead story that seems to have caused the most fuss.   If you missed this latest issue, review it now: https://lnkd.in/gj8i88nd

The hashtag #ProtectParksPete will soon be trending on social media. If you Love Your Park Lands, help us spread this hashtag, to bring it to the notice of the Premier, Peter Malinauskas. https://lnkd.in/gteXWukV

The Australian Heritage Council is being urged to intervene in what’s increasingly being acknowledged as the most blatant commercial sellout of your Park Lands: a skyscraper on Festival Plaza. https://lnkd.in/gG946f75

City of Adelaide has taken up our suggestion of a mapped resource identifying and giving you info about most of the tens of thousands of trees that it looks after in your Adelaide Park Lands. Zoom in, or search the trees, find out what's growing, report any tree damage or ill-health, and even write a love letter to any tree! https://lnkd.in/gAeQvXRd

Make sure you visit the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize 2025 Finalists’ Exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre Fri 2- 29 April open Friday & Sat 10- 3.0pm and event times to see these amazing woks of art. Visit https://lnkd.in/gSXGxdMh.

Two oddities we'll be showing you during our two-hour minute Guided Walk on Sunday through Lower North Adelaide's Parks 7, 8 and 9. The trunk of this River Red Gum provides an insight into its history, and these trails leading to a Kurrajong tree were not made by humans. Find out more. Book here: https://lnkd.in/gnzzVgmB

Are you allowed to pick olives in your Adelaide Park Lands?  Find out as we take you on a Guided Walk through Lower North Adelaide's Parks 7, 8 and 9 this Sunday. We'll wander through the dappled shade and learn the history of both olives and Park Lands olive oil. Book here: https://lnkd.in/gnzzVgmB

There’s a debate about this bird; perhaps the most visually stunning of all birds found in your Adelaide Park Lands. Is the Eastern Rosella native to this area, or was it introduced? https://lnkd.in/eKf7-uwJ

Our two-hour Guided Walk tomorrow through Lower North Adelaide's Parks 7, 8 and 9 features some of North Adelaide's biggest trees. Knarled old olive trees are only one part of this Walk.  Book here: https://lnkd.in/gnzzVgmB