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This is the 2009 Kuranda Envirocare Inc executive. Additional Contact details are listed on the Contact Us page.
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Cathy came from New Zealand to Kuranda in 1980 on route to Weipa. In her 7 years there she spent weekends seed collecting with aboriginal women, learning a few of the drier country species. She has worked in Information technology in various companies, moving from technical to people focus during the 1990’s, retiring as a contract project manager and business analyst. She and her husband also ran their own food and beverage business from home for 4 years. Cathy has always been keen on bush walking and spending time outdoors. She has always supported environmental work financially and watched with great interest the completion of a 10-year revegetation program on a previously denuded Auckland island. Cathy has worked as a regular nursery volunteer since coming to Kuranda. Elected Vice-president in 2005, she facilitated the Envirocare planning sessions held over the end of 2005/2006. She became President in 2006 and again in 2007. She is working with the executive to strengthen and expand the organisation.
Email: president@envirocare.org.au |
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Mike was born in Brisbane , obtained Post-graduate Honours in Geology and Mineralogy and worked for 8 years as an exploration geologist in NW and NE Qld and New Guinea. He then became a Chemistry, Biology and General Science teacher at Trinity Bay and Mareeba State High Schools until retiring from permanent teaching in 2002.
Conservation became an issue for Mike in 1962, when he initiated the campaign to protect the caves at Mt. Etna near Rockhampton. A love of rainforest was engendered by family holidays in Lamington N.P. from the age of three, and later bushwalking, and working in the Nugini Highlands. On arrival in Cairns in 1971, he was horrified at the rate of destruction of rainforests, mangroves and coral reefs. He served as secretary of the Cairns Branch of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, helped create and was the inaugural President of CAFNEC and served as Treasurer of the Tropical Rainforest Society which spearheaded the campaign for World Heritage Listing for the wet tropical rainforests in the far north.
In 1979, Mike initiated rainforest revegation projects on public land at Gordon Crk., Clarke’s Crk., Chinaman Crk. and Windarra St. Sporting Fields. These promoted the use of native rainforest plants for gardens, landscape amenity, wildlife corridors, noise barriers, fire control and reduction of maintenance costs of public land.
Since 1987, he has been experimenting with timber lots with rainforest natives on land at Oak Forest. He Joined Kuranda Envirocare in 2007 and is currently Vice President and Nursery Manager.
Email: vicepresident@envirocare.org.au |
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Margaret grew up and trained as a primary teacher in SE Queensland. After her marriage she moved to the Pilbara in Western Australia and also lived in North-western Queensland, in the Northern Territory and for a couple of years in Switzerland.
Always a bookworm, Margaret studied librarianship part-time and then worked as a teacher-librarian in Darwin. Gardening has always been a favourite hobby of hers, proving challenging in the extremely dry and rocky Pilbara and also dry-wet tropical environments. In Darwin she joined of the Rare Fruits Council and specialised in tropical fruit trees. She says "Our family interest in camping, canoeing and diving led us to some wild, rarely visited areas with fascinating vegetation and helped focus my concerns for the planetary support systems. Now that I have retired I have time to commit some effort to repairing our much used and abused environment."
Email: secretary@envirocare.org.au |
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Email: treasurer@envirocare.org.au |
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Druce worked in plant nurseries and landscaping before joining Cairns City Council with the object of introducing local rainforest trees to the public areas of Cairns. He worked at the Cairns Botanic Gardens and later supervised street tree plantings of rainforest species. He moved to the Mulgrave Shire Council where he became Parks foreman for the area from Freshwater to Palm Cove. He worked with volunteer groups on revegetation projects within Mulgrave Shire. He also planned and implemented a highly successful weed eradication program to combat the noxious vine, Thunbergia grandiflora, in the riparian zone of the Little Mulgrave Valley. He has taught plant identification, revegetation and landscaping at TAFE colleges in Far North Queensland. He has done public landscaping projects and revegetation projects in the Atherton Shire and Mareeba Shires. Druce was born in Gordonvale and grew up at Barron Falls near Kuranda. He has returned to live in Kuranda with a refreshed interest in restoring the rainforest.
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Bruce Wannan has been a Kuranda resident for 18 years. He is trained botanist who has worked in the biological sciences for over 30 years (that's a shock). For the last 18 he has been working FNQ as a environmental consultant and for the Queensland government as a biodiversity planner. He is particularly interested in groundcover and understorey plant species and has a personal herbarium of over 3,000 species.
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