No. 115 - 16 January 2026 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 |
No. 115 - 16 January 2026 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 |
ADELAIDE PARK LANDS ASSOCIATION |
ADELAIDE PARK LANDS ASSOCIATION |
1. What you stand to lose |
1. What you stand to lose |
by Shane Sody More and more people are becoming aware of what you stand to lose if the State Government goes through with its threats to chop down hundreds MORE trees in your Adelaide Park Lands. |
by Shane Sody More and more people are becoming aware of what you stand to lose if the State Government goes through with its threats to chop down hundreds MORE trees in your Adelaide Park Lands. |
2. Writers Week abandoned |
2. Writers Week abandoned |
by InDaily's Helen Karakulak One of the most popular annual events in your Adelaide Park Lands has been abandoned for 2026, after five days of world-wide controversy.
For many years, Writers Week has been part of the Adelaide Festival, at the Pioneer Women's Memorial Gardens in Red Gum Park / Karrawirra (Park 12).
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by InDaily's Helen Karakulak One of the most popular annual events in your Adelaide Park Lands has been abandoned for 2026, after five days of world-wide controversy.
For many years, Writers Week has been part of the Adelaide Festival, at the Pioneer Women's Memorial Gardens in Red Gum Park / Karrawirra (Park 12).
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by Emma Moss Scattered among the winding paths and park benches of your Adelaide Park Lands are living monuments: special trees that carry stories of settlement, commemoration, climate resilience, and deep cultural significance. |
by Emma Moss Scattered among the winding paths and park benches of your Adelaide Park Lands are living monuments: special trees that carry stories of settlement, commemoration, climate resilience, and deep cultural significance. |
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4. Become a Tour Guide leader |
4. Become a Tour Guide leader |
Would you like to be a Tour Guide, to lead Guided Walks through your Adelaide Park Lands? We are looking to recruit a handful of volunteer Tour Guides to help people "Explore" various parts of your Open Green Public Adelaide Park Lands. |
Would you like to be a Tour Guide, to lead Guided Walks through your Adelaide Park Lands? We are looking to recruit a handful of volunteer Tour Guides to help people "Explore" various parts of your Open Green Public Adelaide Park Lands. |
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There are two versions of this newsletter - one for members, and one for non-members. You are reading the non-members version. We love it that you're keeping up with news about your Adelaide Park Lands. We'd be even happier if you joined our team, and strengthened our advocacy by becoming a member. |
There are two versions of this newsletter - one for members, and one for non-members. You are reading the non-members version. We love it that you're keeping up with news about your Adelaide Park Lands. We'd be even happier if you joined our team, and strengthened our advocacy by becoming a member. |
If you were to become an APA member, you would then be able to: More importantly, your membership fee (as low as $20 per year for a single concession) would be tangible support for our Park Lands strategies: Explore, Inspire, Protect and Restore. What are you waiting for? But membership is not the only way you can help. Other simple options are: Volunteer and/or Donate. Choose from the various potential roles we've described on our volunteer page, here. We urgently need more Park Lands journalists/reporters/story tellers! |
If you were to become an APA member, you would then be able to: More importantly, your membership fee (as low as $20 per year for a single concession) would be tangible support for our Park Lands strategies: Explore, Inspire, Protect and Restore. What are you waiting for? But membership is not the only way you can help. Other simple options are: Volunteer and/or Donate. Choose from the various potential roles we've described on our volunteer page, here. We urgently need more Park Lands journalists/reporters/story tellers! |
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6. Tenth year of "Regenerating" |
6. Tenth year of "Regenerating" |
by Shane Sody Trees For Life has released the program for its popular “Regenerate” activities in your Adelaide Park Lands for the first half of 2026. |
by Shane Sody Trees For Life has released the program for its popular “Regenerate” activities in your Adelaide Park Lands for the first half of 2026. |
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7. They paved paradise, and... |
7. They paved paradise, and... |
by Shane Sody If you consider your world-unique, National Heritage listed Park Lands to be Adelaide's "paradise" then the State Government has fulfilled the words of the song 'Big Yellow Taxi' and literally "paved paradise and put up a parking lot." |
by Shane Sody If you consider your world-unique, National Heritage listed Park Lands to be Adelaide's "paradise" then the State Government has fulfilled the words of the song 'Big Yellow Taxi' and literally "paved paradise and put up a parking lot." |
8. Renewed call to save Festival Plaza |
8. Renewed call to save Festival Plaza |
Former Labor Premier, the Rev Lynn Arnold has renewed his call to save your Festival Plaza from a State-Government-approved 38-storey skyscraper. |
Former Labor Premier, the Rev Lynn Arnold has renewed his call to save your Festival Plaza from a State-Government-approved 38-storey skyscraper. |
9. Heat wave kills thousands of bats |
9. Heat wave kills thousands of bats |
by InDaily's David Simmons Bat rescue volunteers have been struggling to cope with thousands of bats succumbing to heat wave conditions in Botanic Park (Park 11 of your Park Lands). |
by InDaily's David Simmons Bat rescue volunteers have been struggling to cope with thousands of bats succumbing to heat wave conditions in Botanic Park (Park 11 of your Park Lands). |
10. Corpse flower set to bloom |
10. Corpse flower set to bloom |
Adelaide Botanic Garden in Park 11 of your Park Lands is set to host one of nature’s most extraordinary spectacles in the coming days, with the anticipated bloom of the infamous Corpse Flower. Pic: Alexandra Drewniak |
Adelaide Botanic Garden in Park 11 of your Park Lands is set to host one of nature’s most extraordinary spectacles in the coming days, with the anticipated bloom of the infamous Corpse Flower. Pic: Alexandra Drewniak |
11. Helen Mayo Park path upgrade |
11. Helen Mayo Park path upgrade |
Work has commenced to upgrade this shared use path along the River Torrens / Karrawirra Pari in Helen Mayo Park (Park 27). |
Work has commenced to upgrade this shared use path along the River Torrens / Karrawirra Pari in Helen Mayo Park (Park 27). |
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