Our current Executive Committee
PRESIDENT - ANNE CLARKE
VICE PRESIDENT - BRUCE WANNAN
SECRETARY - ELIZABETH NOBLE
TREASURER - NEIL BOLAND
ORDINARY MEMBER - MARGARET ZEHTNER
ORDINARY MEMBER - MARJORIE CUTTING
VICE PRESIDENT - BRUCE WANNAN
SECRETARY - ELIZABETH NOBLE
TREASURER - NEIL BOLAND
ORDINARY MEMBER - MARGARET ZEHTNER
ORDINARY MEMBER - MARJORIE CUTTING
meet our long serving volunteers & members
Cathy Retter - Past President
Years with Envirocare - over 20
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 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 continues to lead the team to now. She continues working with the executive to strengthen and expand the organisation.
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Margaret Zehntner - Past President
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Margaret has lived in Kuranda for over15 years and with her husband has built a house and established a native plant garden. She has acquired or propagated many varied and unusual plants. Margaret has a vegetable garden the envy of many.
Margaret was elected president of Envirocare in 2003 till 2005, she then took on the role of secretary and then treasurer until more recent years. She has taken on the nursery manager role and she and husband Hanz have very competently organised much of the nursery refurbishment projects.
Margaret was elected president of Envirocare in 2003 till 2005, she then took on the role of secretary and then treasurer until more recent years. She has taken on the nursery manager role and she and husband Hanz have very competently organised much of the nursery refurbishment projects.
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Dr Bruce Wannan - Past President
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Bruce is a botanist who has worked in the biological sciences for over 30 years. 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.
He is particularly interested in groundcover and understorey plant species and has a personal herbarium of over 3,000 species.
Andrew Horn - past vice president - is part of the nursery management team and is the educational guide for our Group Tree Plantings for school and TAFE groups.
Andrew has been with envirocare for over 20 years. Before then he studied horitculture at JCU and worked on environmental restoration projects restoring quarries and mine sites. He managed a revegetation team for projects around Cairns and Mulgrave Shire and one of his very first restoraration projects was in 1978.
Andrew has been with envirocare for over 20 years. Before then he studied horitculture at JCU and worked on environmental restoration projects restoring quarries and mine sites. He managed a revegetation team for projects around Cairns and Mulgrave Shire and one of his very first restoraration projects was in 1978.
Dr Ray Pierce is an conservation ecologist with forty years experience. He joined Kuranda Envirocare in 2008 and led the bird surveys in 2012.
Dr Pam Schultz
Pam has been a member of Envirocare since 2007. She is a trained anthropologist and archaeologist and attained a PhD in Environmental Sciences in 2011.
Pam has been a member of Envirocare since 2007. She is a trained anthropologist and archaeologist and attained a PhD in Environmental Sciences in 2011.