No. 77 - 15 June 2024 If this email is not displaying properly (e.g. if it's truncated or there are no pictures) then click here to view this email in your web browser |
1. CLEAN UP! DUMP DIRTY LAWS |
by Shane Sody A forty-year-old law to promote motor sport is being used to thwart Park Lands planning, landscaping and public access to your Open, Green, Public spaces.
It’s just one of several laws that fail to protect your Park Lands.
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2. AWARD FOR TREE ADVOCATE |
by Shane Sody A tree advocate, who's captured memorable images in your Adelaide Park Lands, has been honoured by the Conservation Council with a special award for environmental protection. |
3. KNOW YOUR PARK LANDS ART - BLACK SPRING |
by Sorrel Pompert Robertson Our series of stories "Know Your Park Lands Art" guides you through various creative displays within your Adelaide Park Lands.
This time, we look at the stone sculpture “Black Spring”, by Andy Goldsworthy, in the Adelaide Botanic Garden (Park 11).
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4. WHAT'S ON IN YOUR PARK LANDS - JUNE-JULY |
by Alex Jones You have a myriad of engaging events and activities coming up over the next few weeks in your Open, Green, Public Adelaide Park Lands.
Illuminate Adelaide is the highlight, but your Park Lands are also due to host the SAHMRI “Bright Walk”; human-powered vehicle racing, cultural workshops, Guided Walks, World Giraffe Day, and the NAIDOC March and family festival.
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5. WE'D BE STRONGER, WITH YOU! |
Will you help us and support your Park Lands ? There are three ways to do that: as a Member, as a Volunteer and/or as a Donor.. Your contribution in at least one of these three ways would help to carry out our four Park Lands strategies: Explore, Inspire, Protect, and Restore. |
Benefits of membership If you were to become an APA member, (from as little as $20 per year for a single concession) then you would then be able to book for any of our Guided Walks for free, and you would also unlock 15% discounts to all the merch in the APA Shop. Volunteer roles If you were to become a volunteer, there is a wide range of things you could do to help in one or more of our strategic activities. For example, - becoming a Park Ambassador; and/or
- writing stories for our blog and future editions of this newsletter.
Check out the full range of volunteer options here. |
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Are you curious how sectional interests get approval, time after time, to take away slices of your Park Lands? How did we get to the stage where it seems that no laws offer any protection for your Open Green Public spaces?
The answers to these questions would fill a book or two. Now, those books have been published.
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by Carla Caruso An Adelaide academic has called for greater commitment to protecting and encouraging pedestrians, both in your Park Lands and in the CBD. |
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8. PLEASED TO MEET YOU, TINA |
by Carla Caruso A founder of one of the three regular “parkruns” in your Adelaide Park Lands is away from home in June, competing in a world championship in Nice, France.
Meet Tina Nilsson, fitness enthusiast and a great advocate for exercise in your Park Lands.
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by Carla Caruso Using hooked beaks and sharp talons, they hunt and feed on other vertebrates. Several have been sighted in your Adelaide Park Lands. |
10. THINK CITIES CAN'T BREATHE? |
by Shane Sody Advice from the United Nations “Habitat” program about the value of Open, Green, Public spaces, and the multiple benefits of planting and maintaining urban forests, has demonstrated the folly of recent State Government tree felling in your Park Lands. |
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11. BOTANIC GARDEN SURVEY |
Have you had the chance to explore the Adelaide Botanic Garden recently? If you've been to the Garden within the past month, the Garden managers are keen to know about your visit!
Completing this survey will assist the Botanic Garden in enhancing visitor experiences PLUS there's a chance to win a $50 voucher.
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