Current Executive Committee

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President: Cathy Retter Email: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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.