Green Adelaide links an ambitious vision with tangible actions to educate, inspire, influence and enable a cooler, greener, wilder and climate-resilient city by leveraging evidence-based insights and partnerships that enact sustainable change.
The Green Adelaide region and board are established under the Landscape South Australia Act 2019. The board is an expert, skills-based body charged with leading Governance Minister for Environment and Water Green Adelaide Board innovation and achieving positive outcomes across the urban landscapes of the Green Adelaide region.
Our aim is to green and cool our backyards, streets and neighbourhoods, enhance biodiversity and create healthy green spaces for everyone.
Green Adelaide are leading rewilding efforts by transforming green spaces into thriving ecosystems suitable for threatened and iconic species and biodiverse places for people to enjoy and connect with nature. Rewilding means aiming efforts to restore and protect the biodiversity and natural processes of an area (i.e. the interactions among plants, animals and the environment which help create and shape an area).
Our streets, open spaces and backyards are filled with opportunities to accelerate greening and grow our urban forest. This will help combat the urban heat island effect, increase habitat for native wildlife and connect people with nature right on their doorsteps.
Green Adelaide are bringing together state and local governments, industry, Kaurna and the community to drive an ambitious and coordinated approach to greening our city. This means starting with an updated tree canopy and urban heat baseline to develop a metropolitan-wide greening strategy.
In partnership with local government, NGOs and Kaurna Miyurna, we will lead the process of making Adelaide a National Park City. A National Park City is a place, a vision, and a community. In thinking about our city and urban landscapes in a similar way to national parks we recognise that these areas are full of unique spaces for people to connect with nature and each other.
Restoring Kaurna cultural practices will bring truth telling to the forefront of environmental understanding and practices, ensuring Kaurna knowledge is central to creating a sustainable future. Warpulai Kumangka will work in partnership with Green Adelaide and others to support and restore Kaurna ways of working with Country across Kaurna Country. Sharing knowledge and implementing traditional land management practices will be a priority through an innovative urban cultural burning program and an international indigenous knowledge-sharing symposium.
Green Adelaide contributing to natural resource management outcomes
We’re working towards a cooler, greener, wilder and climate-resilient Adelaide that celebrates our unique culture.
Green Adelaide’s contributions to our national NRM snapshots
