by Shane Sody

For four days this month, you can play a part in the annual “Great Southern Bioblitz” - recording biodiversity in your Adelaide Park Lands and elsewhere.

There is an easy way to make observations about anything you see in your Park Lands, and share that record with the world.

From Friday 20 September to Monday 23rd September, you can help scientists by discovering and logging the wildlife in your area.

It’s so easy to get involved, and no better places to do it, than within your Open, Green, Public Adelaide Park Lands. All you need is the smartphone app “iNaturalist” (available free from Google's PlayStore or the Apple AppStore).

The biodiversity logging project from 20 to 23 September in the greater Adelaide region is just one part of the much wider “Great Southern Bioblitz”, scheduled each year for spring in the southern hemisphere.

Observations that you upload to iNaturalist will be pooled with observations from thousands of others. Read more here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/great-southern-bioblitz-2024-greater-adelaide

Biodiversity in your Park Lands

A recent City of Adelaide report on biodiversity revealed the success of re-greening and habitat restoration in selected parts of your Park Lands.

The City Council’s report relied in part on observations by citizen scientists that have been uploaded to iNaturalist.

The iNaturalist database includes a page for each one of the dozens of separate Parks within your Adelaide Park Lands, so you can see what volunteer citizen scientists have already reported in each Park. Here are the observations for each Park within your Park Lands:

Northern Park Lands

• Possum Park / Pirltawardli (Park 1)

• Denise Norton Park / Pardipardinyilla (Park 2)

• Yam Daisy Park / Kantarilla (Park 3)

• Reservoir Park / Kangatilla (Park 4)

• Bragg Park / Ngampa Yarta (Park 5)

• Lefevre Park / Nantu Wama (Park 6)

NORTH-EASTERN PARK LANDS

• Lefevre Park / Nantu Wama (Park 6)

• The Olive Groves / Kuntingga (Park 7) and Parngutilla (Park 8)

• Bundey's Paddock / Tidlangga (Park 9)

Central Park Lands - adjacent to the River Torrens

• Bullrush Park / Warnpangga (Park 10)

• Mistletoe Park / Tainmuntilla (Park 11)

• Botanic Park (Park 11)

• Adelaide Botanic Garden (Park 11)

• Red Gum Park / Karrawirra (Park 12)

• Tarntanya Wama (Park 26)

• Bonython Park / Tulya Wardli (Park 27)

• John E. Brown Park (Park 27A)

• Possum Park / Pirltawardli (Park 1)

EASTERN PARK LANDS

• Rundle Park / Kadlitpina (Park 13)

• Rymill Park / Murlawirrapurka (Park 14)

• King Rodney Park / Ityamai-itpine (Park 15)

• Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16)

SOUTHERN PARK LANDS

• Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16)

• Carriageway Park / Tuthangga (Park 17)

• Peppermint Park / Wita Wirra (Park 18)

• Pelzer Park / Pityarilla (Park 19)

• Blue Gum Park / Kurangga (Park 20)

• Veale Park / Walyu Yarta (Park 21)

• Golden Wattle Park / Mirnu Wirra (Park 21W)

• Josie Agius Park / Wikapartnu Wirra (Park 22)

WESTERN PARK LANDS

• Josie Agius Park / Wikapartnu Wirra (Park 22)

• G.S. Kingston Park / Wirrarninthi (Park 23)

• Ellis Park / Tampawardli (Park 24)

• Gladys Elphick Park / Narnungga (Park 25)

NORTH-WESTERN PARK LANDS

• Gladys Elphick Park / Narnungga (Park 25)

• Bonython Park / Tulya Wardli (Park 27)

• John E. Brown Park (Park 27A)

• Mary Lee Park (Park 27B)

• Possum Park / Pirltawardli (Park 1)

There are also iNaturalist biodiversity records in other parts of your Adelaide Park Lands, such as the six Squares and/or the formal Gardens of North Adelaide.

The author of this article, Shane Sody, is the President of the Adelaide Park Lands Association and the editor of the semi-monthly newsletter, "Open Green Public".

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