Overview In September 2015, Mareeba Shire Council published the latest draft of a new plan for the Shire, which includes the Kuranda Region. A community meeting was called in Kuranda on November 8th 2015 to discuss concerns about the latest draft plan. The meeting resolved: To set up a ‘Friends of the Kuranda Region Planning Group’
DATE: 15 MAY 2017 MEDIA RELEASE TO: MEDIA LIST KUR-World 2.0: More ridiculous than the first KUR-World 'Master Plan'! Residents and conservationists are incredulous at the release of the latest KUR-World "Master Plan", along with a "Q & A" received from the developer's PR consultants. "This so-called 'KUR-World' proposal in my opinion just gets shonkier. It
TO: Mareeba Shire Council FROM: Kuranda Region Planning Group DATE: 27 April 2017 Dangerous pesticides used by agricultural concerns in the middle of rural residential Koah Dear Council We ask Council to deal with the conflict that has been created by rezoning rural land to rural residential land in Koah and answer the following questions:
TO: Mareeba Shire Council FROM: Jax Bergersen, Kuranda Conservation Community Nursery DATE: 9 MAY 2017 For the attention of Mayor Tom Gilmore and Councillors, please Over the last couple of years, Kuranda Conservation (KCons) has been collecting data relating to cassowaries in the Kuranda region. This data is currently being uploaded to the national Wildnet database.
TO: Tom Gilmore, Councillors FROM: Kuranda Region Planning Group DATE: 11 MAY 2017 Dear Mayor Gilmore and fellow Councillors We write on behalf of the Kuranda Region Planning Group (KRPG) You'll recall that the KRPG - a network of local environmental groups and concerned residents - unsuccessfully lobbied Council for consultation (which you had promised back in
TO: @birdlife.org.au FROM: Jax Bergersen, Kuranda Conservation Community Nursery DATE: 2 MAY 2017 We have recently become aware of your important IUCN document "A Global Standard for the Identification of Key Biodiversity Areas, Version 1.0,23 March 2016" and, due to our data collection on Casuarius casuarius, the Southern Cassowary in the Kuranda region over the
RECEIVED: 30 APRIL 2017 Dear Jo Thank you for your enquiry below. I will raise this at the next KUR-World Technical Working Group meeting scheduled for next week and get back to you as soon as possible with an answer. Regards Geraldine Dr Geraldine McGuire Manager – Community Engagement SENT: 30 APRIL 2017
KUR-WORLD QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS APRIL 2017 Open webpage >> EXCERPTS AND COMMENTS REPLY Open PDF (sample slides below)
We are excited to announce the introduction of the Wet Tropics Plan for People and Country Portal (WTPPC Portal). Our community groups have been given the opportunity to put our work into the awesome online Portal tool. This website can then be accessible by the general public so we can keep all our efforts
KRPG Meeting with WTMA / QPWS about proposed Mega-Development KUR-World in Kuranda RegionOn Wednesday 26 April at 10am, our KRPG cohort of 4 met with the WTMA / QPWS for 2 hours in Kuranda. We were very grateful to be given the opportunity to present our community story about the environmental threat to the Kuranda Region by the Mega-Development
