Green Adelaide Projects

Urban Greening Strategy for Metropolitan Adelaide

A practical roadmap for growing our tree canopy, cooling our city and boosting urban biodiversity.

River Torrens Breakout Creek Stage 3 Redevelopment

Transforming the river from an artificial channel into a more natural, healthy creek.

Bringing Platypus back to the Torrens

A bold rewilding project to bring platypus back to the River Torrens.

Urban heat and tree canopy mapping

Understanding the extent of tree canopy, green spaces, permeability, building footprints and urban heat across our city.

Urban River Torrens Recovery Project

Targets priority sites to improve water quality and ecosystem function in the river and nearby.

Managing blue-green algae in Torrens Lake

Preventing blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) blooms in Torrens Lake in the CBD.

Encouraging birds of prey habitat & awareness

A rewilding project to enhance the habitat and raise awareness about local birds of prey.

Blue carbon futures

Restoring saltmarshes and mangroves and investigating their carbon storage potential.

Adelaide has gained National Park City status

Our city is part of a global movement that connects people with each other and nature.

Rocky Reef Program

We monitor our reef ecosystems using underwater surveys to support conservation of these key marine habitats and identify potential threats.

Nature Prescription Trial

South Australia's first Trial was delivered in 2021. Read about our findings.