Info Session - 19 July 2018 @ Kuranda Amphitheatre Understage Thank you to all contributors of material for this information video. *The speaker index and direct links to the beginning of each talk are below the video (see START links). VIDEO INDEX -- Cathy Retter, Kuranda Envirocare, opens community session, overview,
Please read the background information below and fill in the questionnaire. When you click the SUBMIT button your digital submission will be sent to the following agencies: Mareeba Shire Councillors Craig Crawford MP, Member for Barron River Warren Entsch MP, Member for Leichhardt Cameron Dick MP, Minister for Local Government and Planning Leeanne Enoch MP,
The KRPG Team are working with local landowners to secure Voluntary Conservation Agreements within the Kuranda Region (Wet Tropics Bioregion corridor). Please take a moment to read the INFO SHEET from Department of Environment and Heritage Protection for a brief overview of how the program works for landowners. Our local priorities are: Conservation Agreements on Priority
TO: Tom Gilmore, Councillors FROM: Kuranda Region Planning Group DATE: 1 JUN 2017 Dear Mayor Gilmore and fellow Councillors We are writing regarding two confirmed breaches of the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 by Ken Lee, owner of the former Barnwell Estate near Kuranda. As you know, this is the land he has earmarked for the proposed 'Kur-World'
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’
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
KUR-WORLD QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS APRIL 2017 Open webpage >> EXCERPTS AND COMMENTS REPLY Open PDF (sample slides below)
