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Current Executive Committee

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President: Cathy Retter Email: president@envirocare.org.au
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. She is now employed with the Cairns Regional Council as a Business Manager.

Cathy is 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 continues to lead the team to now. She is working with the executive to strengthen and expand the organisation.

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Treasurer & Nursery Coordinator: Margaret Zehntner Email: treasurer@envirocare.org.au
Margaret Zehntner

Dr Ray Pierce is an conservation ecologist with forty years experience. He joined Kuranda Envirocare in 2008 and led the bird surveys in 2012.

Website manager: 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. 

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Botanist: Dr Bruce Wannan
Dr Bruce Wannan has been a Kuranda resident for 18 years.

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.

Phone
​07 4093 8989

​Email
​info@envirocare.org.au


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PO Box 494 Kuranda 4881


Nursery Address 
284 Myola Rd, Myola , Kuranda 4881
beyond the Kuranda Aquatic centre

Nursery Opening Times
Monday & Thursday 9am - noon 
Saturday 10am - noon 
or ph. 0419 624 940 for appointment
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  • Home
  • About us
  • Projects
    • Frog Habitat Project
    • Frog logo and T shirt comp
    • Connecting Corridors Project
    • Bird Monitoring Project
    • Frog Monitoring Project >
      • Frog Friendly Neighbourhood
    • Yellow Crazy Ant Taskforce
    • GROW Project 1
  • Nursery
    • Naturally native plant collections
  • Get involved
  • Contact
  • Regional planning
    • Land development history
    • Kurworld >
      • TOO BIG
      • WRONG PLACE
      • NOT ENOUGH WATER TOO MUCH WASTE
      • ROAD CONGESTION
      • EMPTY PROMISES
      • NO TRUST
      • KEC Position
      • Resources
      • Submission Form
  • Invasive species
  • Local threatened species
  • Newsletter Archive
  • Membership
    • Membership benefits >
      • Library
  • Citizen science blog