Orienteering Association of SA website

Spokesperson::         John Lyon, Council member

Contact Details:        RSD66, Gumeracha SA 5233

                                8389 3143

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Key Role of Member Group:

'To care for the land we share'.

To protect the cultural and natural environment of our native (and commercial) forests to allow urban people to enjoy the bush and hence to:

• Become conservationists
• Improve their 'heart health' and lifestyle
• Challenge those who want to exclude home-sapiens  from native forests.

Key Achievements and Activities for 2008/09:

• Submission to CCSA re BHP Expansion, Pt Lowly and town plans for Roxby Downs (maximum open space)
• Submission to Greater Adelaide Draft Plan - OASA says 30% open space with linkages to protect what biodiversity is left (only 15% in the Plan)
• OASA has responded to the Belair Park Trail Master Plan emphasising the maintenance of a sound ecological balance there
• OASA is represented on the DEH working group to develop a visitor strategy; we seek a balance between the needs of conservation and recreational use
• PT Lincoln Orienteers work to maintain the Barbara Deitz Trail at Cape Donnington
• Top End Orienteers have advocated against the destruction of the East Point Bush for housing
• Adelaide Metro Orienteering Clubs are 'Friends' of Para Wirra and FSA Mt Crawford Forests 'pulling pines', cutting out boneseed and monodenia at Lobethal Bushland Park.

Identify three key environmental issues impacting on South Australia:

• 1. The proposed BHP-Billiton expansion and the threat to Pt Lowly of a desalination plant (Whyalla Orienteers are active here)
• 2. The threat of native vegetation following new CFS guidelines to protect built assets (following Vic fires of 7/2/09)
• 3. The Adelaide desalination plant at Hallett Cove
• 4. Minimum open space for the greater Adelaide area