About

About Green Adelaide

What is Green Adelaide?

Learn about us and our cooler, greener, wilder plans for Adelaide.

Our area

We are responsible for the hills to the sea of metro Adelaide. See our map for the finer details.

Our plans and reports

Read our plans and reports on creating a cooler, greener and wilder city.

Our board members

Let us introduce you to our board members.

Sponsorships

Green Adelaide welcomes requests from external organisations for sponsorships of events, initiatives and programs.

Freedom of information

The FOI Act provides members of the public a right of access to documents held by government. Learn how to make an FOI request to Green Adelaide.
Get involved

Get involved

Volunteer your time

Here you’ll find nature volunteer opportunities and practical support for your environmental volunteer group.

Help for teachers

Looking for local environmental teaching help? Connect with our in-school support and download sustainability education tools.

Opportunities for young people

Find out about our young people environmental activities and programs.

Share your ideas

Share your ideas with us for projects and activities to cool, green and wild the city.

Apply for awards

We are proud to support many awards that celebrate local green champions and their efforts to create a cooler, greener and wilder city. Browse our award options.

Become a Coastal Ambassador

This program offers two separate courses – one for youth and the other for adults – to community members who are passionate about protecting and conserving Adelaide’s stunning coastlines and marine life.

Courses and events

We have a range of courses and events to help you learn new nature skills, meet like-minded people and have a lot of fun.

Visit an environment centre

We support environment centres in greater Adelaide as places for you to visit and gather local nature information and training. Find out where they are and what they offer.
Grants

Grants

Grassroots Grants

Our Grassroots Grants put much needed funds into the hands of individuals, schools and community groups to help them transform their local environments.

Cooler, Greener, Wilder Grants Program

The Cooler, Greener, Wilder Grants Program for local governments provides support to Adelaide’s metropolitan councils to deliver greening outcomes, incorporate water sensitive urban design or biodiversity sensitive urban design principles.

Grant stories

Browse how our grants are creating a cooler, greener and wilder city.
Discover

Discover

Get started with gardening

Explore food gardening

Get to know the River Torrens / Karrawirra Pari

Learn about Adelaide's native animals

Help with pest animals

Help with weeds

Read about water planning and permits

Resources

Listen to our podcast

Water affecting activity permit FAQs
Projects

Projects

Rewilding Adelaide's birds of prey

Creating a more butterfly friendly city

Bringing platypus back to the Torrens

Adelaide National Park City movement

River Torrens Breakout Creek Stage 3

Managing blue-green algae in Torrens Lake

Urban Greening Strategy

Urban River Torrens Recovery Project
News and blogs

Resources

Garden guides

Looking for help in the garden? Download our garden planting guides for information on low maintenance plants that save water and attract birds, butterflies and bees.

Adelaide gardens planting guide

PDF | 6 MB

Coastal gardens planting guide (for those living closer to the beach)

PDF | 5 MB

Coastal gardens design guide

PDF | 5.2 MB

Coastal gardens design guide graph paper

PDF | 68 KB

Wildlife friendly gardens

PDF | 3.2 MB

Samphire information

Samphires dominate our coastal saltmarshes (grassy sections of the coast that are flooded regularly). Learn all about them, including how to ID our local species, in this comprehensive guide.

Samphires of Greater Adelaide and the Fleurieu Peninsula

PDF | 6.5 MB

Native grass information

Learn how to identify native grasses and maintain them with this guide to get your started.

Native Grasses Guide

PDF | 5.6 MB

Wildlife friendly gardens

Bats

Birds

Butterflies

Frogs

Lizards

Nest boxes

Planting natives

Possums

Towards Cooler, Greener, Wilder seminar series

You can watch the recordings of our online seminar series about key projects to cool, green and wild metropolitan Adelaide.

Topics include biodiversity sensitive urban design (BSUD), hollow habitats, looking after waterways and more.

Stay up to date on these and other events coming up by subscribing to our monthly newsletter. Upcoming seminars are listed on our courses and events page.

ID charts & teaching tools

Teaching resources

Browse our downloadable ID charts, teaching tools, packages and games for use in schools and the community.