We need to protect our existing parklands and support other plant and animal species around us.
We need to have a common mindset around preservation and the role it plays in overall community benefit.
We need to make Adelaide climate resilient, green and attract tourists through our nature based tourism not just for ourselves but foe our future generations. How awesome would it be to be the second in the world to achieve National Park City title
We must reclaim and grow our green spaces for the good of people, the planet and all who depend on it. Adelaide can be an ambassador for sustainable living and a haven for nature.
It's a great idea. The more we can reestablish natural places and nurture them within our metropolitan areas the more resilient, sustainable and healthy our communities will be.
It is important to demonstrate our shared commitment to a greener, sustainable, more liveable urban environment.
To protect it's beauty, environment and heritage before it is lost to greedy developers, money of big business / organisations and the whim of politicians.
Make our beautiful city cleaner and greener for generations to come
More trees on verges
Developers required to replace greenery bulldozed
This is an important way to support and enhance the natural environment of our city - which is essential at this critical time of climate change.
For it's own health. If it can anyway reduce the temperature in the city. The people of Adelaide deserve to live in a city with a green environment.
It is so needed worldwide to take care of our land.
Because green is beautiful! In addition, green spaces are better for the environment, fauna ecosystems, and the people working and living in our city.
Adelaide should continue to lead the way in demonstrating how the environment and city life can be an environmental positive by becoming Australia’s first national park city.
It will help protect our city parklands for generations to come. Not just those living nearby but to visitors from Sa, inters and overseas. Our parklands have historical and environmental sign but also bring so much more to those that use them as a way to connect with nature and enjoy a green space to contrast with city work and living.
Let’s keep what we have and make it even better.
I think it is a wonderful plan for Adelaide to be actively promoted as a place where nature is part of everyone's lives. I look forward to greater Adelaide being a greener, healthier and wilder city, and a place where people take action to be better connected with the environment.
Nature is so important for health and wellbeing.
Our contribution toward saving our planet and it's fragile ecosystems.
Despite having just been named one of the most liveable cities, Adelaide/SA faces huge rates of deforestation and the quality of the majority of land has been hugely reduced. Adelaide is situated in an area with huge heatwaves, one of the best ways to deal with this is to protect and regenerate trees and Bushland. SA has a very unique flora and fauna, and there are many beautiful animals that are hugely threatened by the way our remnant forests are treated. Adelaide needs to be a National Park City, it’s about a happier future!
Adelaide is super wholesome. It's a forward-thinking city while remaining humane, life-caring and environmentally-nurturing.
It will make Adelaide a global leader by coming together to create a sustainable environment for visiting, living and working in.
Because it’s the smartest thing for us to do to rewild our spaces, climate change is a scary reality that needs to be addressed, and this looks like a promising solution to help combat the impending collapse of our native ecosystems.
Preservation, rewilding, funding
Limit land subdivisions in suburbs to provide sufficient yard space for trees, gardens and backyard buddies.
To help stem the rate of species extinction in southern Australia.
To accelerate the growth of the ecotourism sector so that policy makers at all levels of governance- especially local government areas ie regional councils-come to accept that property development capital is not the holy grail that it has become, and which has had little accountability for the huge damage to the environment it has caused.
For the well-being of its citizens, improving biodiversity of flora and fauna to help retain ecosystems, to improve aesthetics, to help protect against the rising temperatures, reduce pollution of atmosphere and waterways and to encourage more people to be active and interactive .
More money needs to be invested in land management and connecting our vital corridors. Hopefully the funding is used proactively, not like it is with our current NP's.
Connect with nature & traditional owners; support climate resilience.
Adelaide is a beautiful city already with our squares and Bonython and Ryhill Parks. We can go better and make Adelaide and surrounds even more green, peaceful and healthy by adding to the Green by way of National Park. Even expanding the Botanical Gardens.
I visit my brother in Brisbane and he lives across from the Roma St Parklands and they are absolutely beautiful. I always go there just to walk and solve 1st world problems. We can do that here.
Its a beautiful city and should be kept that way. love living here our parks desetbe beter attention from all of us. Let's all get behind this initiative..Go S.A. 🌲⚘🌱🌻😁👍
To protect and value the existing parklands and nature reserves that provide a habitat and wellbeing space to residents and visitors
Adelaide's rivers, coasts, park and hills landscapes deserve our care and support.
I’m sure this what the planning of Adelaide was and still is all about.The ranking in the most liveable cities suggests that it is the most beautiful city in Australia.
The more green spaces, the more liveable the city for humans and animals!
if it achieves this level of greenery then there should be greater levels of protection for the environment which is currently being eroded by this government with it seems anyone with money can build a project without any recourse to laws that currently supposedly protect the environment.
To focus on and improve levels of greenery to aid future generations.
Spending time in natural areas and green spaces has physical and mental health benefits, as well as encouraging an appreciation of the environment and its importance to us. We think the activities described above could greatly increase peoples’ time spent in green areas as well as their understanding and engagement with the natural world. A very desirable outcome would be the understanding of and attitudes towards conservation, diversity and our place in the natural world.
Appreciate the importance of global warming.
Making Adelaide a retreat from stresses
We are part of nature and doing everything possible that will allow the natural environment to flourish will be good for all.
Because people benefit from nature
To protect the rights of wildlife and humans to natural habitats.
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Aldinga Beach
We already have beautiful parks and gardens and more still needs. to. bedone for the environment.
To help development and conservation work together.
great tourist attraction
great feature
great for planet
Live in balance: more biodiversity, greater wellbeing, reduced stress, reduced runoff, better gut health, better mental health, greater awareness of the interconnection of all things, living from a more heart-centred and holistic place.
Because we have the best opportunity as a small growing city, to become a green city.
If the city has more expansion, we need to reduce the pollution which it brings, but increasing as much green space, tree canopy and parklands to clean our air.
Also, having more electric/solar run public transport will help clean the city air.
Adelaide has amazing green spaces which must be maintained and improved.
Change the way people think about and use their beautiful city.
Nature is at the heart of our wellbeing, so it's important that we make our home as green as we can.
More focus on nature connection in our everyday routine is important.
It is up to us to improve our environmental impact for now and future generations. We already live in a beautiful area but let us improve on its environmental health for all of our wellbeins.
Adelaide city has the wonderful parklands surrounding it which need to be preserved and protected. Let’s make Adelaide the greenest city in Australia or why not the world?
We need to live in harmony with nature and stop destroying it. Becoming a National Park City will help us provide more habitat for wildlife and help us become more resilient from the inpacts of climate change.
We need to breathe. We need to create a micro climate that supports cooler and wetter Adelaide. Green and outdoors promotes better mental health, social connections and is so much more beautiful than the concrete jungle.
The importance of nature and natural experiences in promoting wellness is well known through the "Biophilia Hypothesis". If we take care of nature it will take care of us and this initiative is an excellent starting point.
The social, health, economic and environmental benefits of green spaces are undeniable. The greener we make our city, the better it will be for all of us. Adelaide is already the 3rd most livable city in the world. As a national park city, we have the opportunity to create an exemplary model for urban living, reducing our environmental impact and re-wilding our urban spaces for all species. I love our city, let's make it a world leader!
A National Park City would be a lovely gift to future generations and a great opportunity to create outdoor education on the ecology of the areas 🐛🦋
Green space is great space.....
I think every city in the world should be a National Park City. Adelaide is well suited because I think we could represent the platypus well, as an iconic and valuable attraction to Adelaide as a liveable city.
why not! Lets leave a legacy for the future.
Being an international, arriving here in Adelaide already leaves you amazed for how green it is! Trees and wildlife everywhere, it is the perfect example of how humans and wildlife, nature coexist.
Please let’s preserve what Parklands we have left from development incursion and leave them as a green space which is safe for wildlife and gentler human pursuits. It would be great if we could also work towards reclaiming the Parklands we have lost to development over time, when opportunities arise, instead of seeing any open space as free rein for money making ventures and yet more building works.
You hear so much about deforestation, doom and gloom and how our world is getting less and less green by the minute. If we have the opportunity to make a small portion of it green and beautiful again, why wouldn’t we? It might just encourage others to do the same.
There is a great need to have wildlife places. It enriches people's physical and mental health. It encourages natural habitat for our unique wildlife as well as cooling down our climate. I praise God every day that I live in Adelaide. We need to save and improve what we have.
The city's unique parklands make Adelaide a wonderful place to be and are worthy of protection with careful mindful and enhanced co use for the today and into the future.
More bike paths that are safer and that encouraging a wide range of people to feel safer to commute. and not focused exclusively to just push bikes being more inclusive to alternative transport forms electric scooters, bikes and boards.
We need more trees and plants as they keep disappearing daily. Preferably native plants and trees to the area.
We have an amazing opportunity to position ourselves as not only the renewable state but the carbon negative state.
It will increase funding for greening our city.
Perhaps it is a way to help in healing Kaurna Country, in which case I would support.
To demonstrate the commitment of the community to nurturing the environment which makes Adelaide a wonderful place to live a whole life
A National Park City for Adelaide will assist with reaching Greening Australia's goals for Nature in Cities that focus on People, Water, Biodiversity and Climate.
Critically needed in these times of loss of environment, backyards & climate crisis
This concept fits well with making Adelaide greener and cooler. To have these ideas at the forefront of planning could only be a benefit for our community. I love living in Adelaide.
Connecting to nature and most importantly having animals that add beauty to our surroundings and bring compassion and empathy within us to make our planet a better home.
So often we are overshadowed by the bigger eastern states in international tourism promotion. When we open up again it would be a wonderful draw card for Adelaide to be a National Park City as well as the obvious benefits for us locals.
The climate is ideal to create a National Park city. People of Adelaide are connected to the environment and spend many hours of the day outside all year round. It would build greener and nutruring environment for happier, more connected inhabitants.
To retain what wonderful wild spaces we already have, and to encourage further development to incorporate nature. To show big business that it's profitable, and to show leaders that this is what people want.
Cleanest and greenest city!
We are so lucky to live in a beautiful clean, green city like Adelaide. We need to work to preserve and improve this, not take it for granted, especially as the climate changes. We should be able to interact with nature every single day.
Because if we don't, Adelaide will be facing 50 degree heat waves. The Adelaide Hills are our carbon sink, our lungs, our rain maker and they are being quarried away as we speak. Join RAWRQ on Facebook to put an end to this.
We should keep Adelaide a green city for future generations
By having this implemented, this will not only secure the future for our future generations but also fight climate change. In the long term, it will benefit us and nature.
Adelaide should pursue a commitment towards, and recognition for, our wonderful local and endemic wildlife, along with the abundance of beautiful green space we are blessed to have around us. Development pressure has recently been placing greater stress, and fostering destruction of, our parkland.
We must pledge to preserve nature in our city and continue to grow it, enabling ever greater access to open green and blue spaces so that wildlife and humans alike can enjoy the benefits of habitat, recreation and health bestowed by our great outdoors. Adelaide City is the historic, traditional and contemporary centre of green space zoning in Greater Adelaide. Being the first true garden city in the world, its open spaces represent a massive historical value as they illicit vivid images of the dream that was the ‘freeman's colony' – a utopian vision for the perfect society with abundant access to the benefits of nature for all.
By attaining the title of 'National Park City' and status associated with it, the bettering and growth of Adelaide’s glorious parkland and nature reserves will hold greater weight. As such, we could expect and demand the rigorous bettering and conservation of these valuable places, pushing all future governments to recognise these superb assets. All in all, if we find success in this objective, then we will be one step closer to forever protecting and enshrining the principles of our city's founding in pursuit of providing equal access to the benefits of nature for all as part of the great challenge and gift of equality for all.
We are already Australia's greenest city - lets take it one step further!
To preserve the beautiful parks and nature theres too many developments killing wild life and park areas
We must be proactive in protecting our environment, and allowing it to flourish.
I love Adelaide, I have grown up here, I choose to live here and raise my family here, but I fear for our future if we do not embrace nature and learn to live in harmony with our environment as the world warms. We have a beautiful park city that deserves to be recognised, nurtured and protected.
We should have more environmental responsibility over our parks.
Our city needs more push for residents to embrace nature in their streets and backyards. If it’s something Adelaidians can be proud of, they may not be as opposed. Councils and other green organisations are doing what they can but we also need to utilise the large amount of private property to help nature live it’s fullest.
it would beneficial for our health (air quality and green space = active) and tourism.
Adelaide is globally unique through it's garden city roots and the original vision for a city that would thrive within encircling parklands. Through the benefit of foresight, Adelaide holds a strategic position to build upon this vision and further restore natural ecosystems within our urban areas to bring back balance in the way our landscapes function. The opportunities presented by the Adelaide National Park City are vast and are imperative to a sustainable future.
We must get cracking on taking action to minimise the impacts climate change will have on the way we live.
A green space, a calm and caring space and a place we can all come to and enjoy.
Adelaide should be a national Park because we have parks and gardens mostly on the outskirts of the city. Not enough greenery and extra special places to attract more tourism or encourage people to get out and explore the city more.
To enhance our city green space, to show how much we value it, to keep our city cool and provide an environment for native animals and plants.
Adelaide is designed as a garden city and we should take every opportunity to protect it and enhance it.
