The South West City Community Association will be winding up at the end of December after 11 years of dedicated service to the residents of Adelaide’s south western quadrant.
Know Your Park Lands Art: John Dowie sculptures
Purple pain?
Do jacaranda trees suck?
According to Adelaide pollination ecologist and educator Bianca Amato, they do. She believes the well-loved trees, though pretty, are “ecological dead zones”.
Meanwhile, plane trees have also come under attack interstate, with Sydney’s city council phasing out their use across its streets and parks. Environmentalist Tim Flannery has labelled the species “about as much use to our wildlife as concrete posts”. Could the same happen here?
What's On In Your Park Lands Over The New Year
Know Your Park Lands Plants: native scurf pea
Unhappy Fifth Anniversary
Two-step process to remove silt island
Myth-busting #11: Horses
If a tree falls in a forest.....
Mapping out Orienteering
Fences going up; not coming down
Motor racing near wetland?
Park lovers have questioned why the State Government chose to return the Adelaide 500 car race to Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16) after award-winning biodiversity wetlands were created there.
Birds and other wildlife have proliferated in the area since the $13 million, 3.2-hectare wetland was opened in the southern part of the Park in 2022.
The spare minute runner
Himeji Garden in miniature
What's On In Your Park Lands - December 2023
Abusive drivers thwart Park protection
Meet our membership officer
Many people volunteer behind the scenes at the Adelaide Park Lands Association, helping operations to run smoothly.
One such person is Alexandra Buzila, who joined us this year as membership officer. This week, we’ve swung the spotlight her way, asking her about her passions - including for conservation, travel, and events in your Park Lands.
Know Your Park Lands Plants: native apricot
What use is National Heritage listing?
BioBlitz: easy citizen science adventure
Join thousands of citizen scientists around the southern hemisphere, using your smart-phone to observe and record biodiversity. Snap whatever life you can see or hear, in one of the rare precious bushland areas of your Adelaide Park Lands.
Join us with your smartphone on Saturday morning, 25 November, 10am to 12 noon, in Parks 3, 4 and 5. We’ll help you record biodiversity as part of the Great Southern BioBlitz.
