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Volunteer & Community Groups in Tropical North Queensland

Throughout the Wet Tropics, volunteer organisations contribute skills and labour to a variety of activities, making community groups a vital and substantial partner in conservation.

Some groups focus on only one particular type of wildlife while others are concerned with any issue that would affect their township. All welcome new members and volunteers. There are projects of every description ranging from field studies to tree plantings to injured wildlife rescue. There is bound to be something to interest everybody so join in, make a contribution and learn - all at the same time!

Download a brochure about Wet Tropics environmental organisations and how you can volunteer.

 

Contact:   Hugh Spencer

Austrop focuses on conservation and sustainable management of the Daintree lowland ecosystems, research and education. Volunteers help at the Cape Tribulation Tropical Research Station, at the Bat House and with community conservation activities.

Phone: (07) 4098-0063
Email: hugh@austrop.org.au
Address:

PMB 5
Cape Tribulation Qld 4873

Website: www.austrop.org.au

Cairns and Far North Environment Centre (CAFNEC)

Contact:   Steve Ryan

CAFNEC provides a regional forum and central support facility for environmental organisations and campaigners.

Volunteers are welcome!

Phone: (07) 4032-1746
Fax: (07) 4053-3779
Email: coord@cafnec.org.au
Website:

www.cafnec.org.au

Address: PO Box 323N
North Cairns 4870
Memberships: $30 single, $40 groups/families, $15 concession (component of fees are tax deductible)
Meetings: The management committee meets every two weeks, general meetings are quarterly.
Contact:   Chrissy Henderson

C4 is a voluntary organisation which staffs a visitor centre seven days a week, offers Heritage tours to Mission Beach visitors and undertakes extensive tree planting projects.

Local councils consult C4 on local development applications and issues.

Mission Beach Wildcare, a C4 working group looks after orphaned or injured native wildlife and has a 24 hour phone on 40687272.

Phone: 07) 4068-7197
Fax: (07) 4068-7298
Address: PO Box 165
Mission Beach 4852
Email:

c4@qldnet.com.au

Website: www.cassowaryconservation.asn.au
Membership: $18 single, $25 families, $6.25 pensioners
Meetings: General meetings are held every two months and management meeting on the last Monday of the month.
Contact:   Alice Crabtree

Working in partnership with other community and government organisations, CVA offers a wide variety of volunteer conservation experiences. Teams are regularly organised to undertake projects, sometimes in remote localities.

Phone: (07) 4032 0844
Email: mdwyer@conservationvolunteers.com.au
Website: http://www.conservationvolunteers.com.au
Address:

PO Box 7745 Cairns Qld 4870

Contact:   Allen Sheather & Barb Maslen

The group aims to increase the local profile of the cassowary through monitoring, public awareness and encouraging the government to adopt cassowary management strategies. Members are actively involved in rehabilitating degraded land and the group encourages landowners to plant native species through community education projects such as the annual Daintree Cassowary Care Week

Phone: (07)4098- 6155
Email: barbara@wildwings.com.au
Address: PO Box 871, Mossman 4873
Memberships: $5 single, $10 families
Meetings: Quarterly
Contact:   Adam Miller

This community legal centre promotes environmental protections and conservation. Staff provide a legal service and representation in public interest environmental law matters and strategic test cases, prepare submissions on environmental law and policy reform proposals and contribute to community education on environmental law issues.

Phone: (07) 4031-4766
Fax: (07) 4041-4535
Email: edonq@edo.org.au
Website: www.edo.org.au
Memberships: $10 unwaged, $30 single, $40 community organisations, $35 families.
Meetings: Executive meets once a month.
Contact:   P.O. Box 7546, Cairns Qld 4870

Far North Queensland Wildlife Rescue (Inc.) is a group of volunteers who are dedicated to the preservation of the many species of wildlife found in Tropical North Queensland. Their mission is to be a network of professional carers committed to rehabilitating wildlife for release and the education of  people about the value of native fauna and its habitat.

Rescue
Centre:
Unit 4/114 Hoare St.
Manunda (Cairns)
Phone: (07) 4053-4467 (24 hour hotline)
Website: www.fnqwildliferescue.org.au/
Meetings:

Monthly

Contact:   Deborah Pergolotti

The Frog Decline Reversal (FDR) Project is a tax deductible frog conservation organisation. It has a large website featuring unique information about disease threats and ways to help frog populations. The group specialises in rescue and rehabilitation of injured and sick frogs as well as disease surveillance.

Phone: (07) 4045-0373
Email: fdrproject@westnet.com.au
Website: www.fdrproject.org.au
Address: PO Box 949 Edmonton Qld 4869
Contact:   Cathy Retter

Kuranda EnviroCare is the amalgamation of Kuranda's Environment Association and Landcare Group. It has a membership of over 200.

Current issues include town planning, environmental education, wildlife corridor rehabilitation, wildlife management (especially cassowaries), and domestic animal and feral pig control.

Phone: 07 4093-9926
Email: exec@envirocare.org.au
Website: www.envirocare.org.au
Address:

PO Box 494, Kuranda 4881

Meetings: fFrst Wednesday of every month
Contact:   James McLellan

NQCC operates an education program provides its members with a regular newsletter and campaigns on environmental issues.

Phone: (07) 4771-6226
Fax: (07) 4721-1713
Address: PO Box 364
Townsville Qld 4810
Email: nqcc@beyond.net.au
Website:

www.nqcc.org.au

Memberships: $33 single, $38-50 family, $16.50 concession
Meetings: Executive meets twice monthly general meetings held six times a year.
Contact:   David Cook

The aim of Rainforest Rescue is to encourage sustainable management of the Daintree rainforest. The Foundation has raised funds for the purchase of seven blocks of land in the Daintree for use as wildlife corridors.

Phone: (07) 4098-7933
Email: david@rainforestrescue.org.au
Contact:   Gitte Kragh

Sea Turtle Foundation works to protect turtles and address threats to them. We achieve our aim through education, monitoring, research support and advocacy.

Phone: (07) 4721-2699
Address: PO Box 1190
Townsville Qld 4810
Email: info@seaturtlefoundation.org
Website:

www.seaturtlefoundation.org

Contact:   Beryl Davidson

These enthusiastic frog fanciers promote conservation and public awareness by producing an informative newsletter, holding a yearly Frog Festival, arranging specialist talks at meetings and promoting the building of frog ponds and frog friendly gardens.

Phone: (07) 4096-6556
Address: Mailbag 71, Yungaburra 4872
Memberships: $10 single, $5 child, $15 family
Meetings: every second month
Contact:   Alan Gllanders

The volunteers are based at the Lake Eacham section of Crater Lakes National Park and conduct a wide variety of activities.

Public activities include guided spotlighting and bird walks, staffing a display caravan and kids holiday activities.

Park based activities include working bees and research on flora and fauna.

Phone: (07) 4095-3768
Email: treeroo@bigpond.com
Address

2 Mather Rd
Yungaburra Qld 4884

Memberships: $10 per year
Meetings: First Tuesday of the month
Contact:   Jenny MacLean

Tolga Bat Rescue and Research works for conservation of bats and their habitat as well as running the Tolga Bat Hospital. Hundreds of flying foxes, mostly spectacled flying foxes are rescued each year.

Phone: (07) 4091-2683
Address

PO Box 685
Atherton Qld 4883

Email: jenny.maclean@iig.com.au
Website: http://www.tolgabathospital.org/
Contact:   Lisa O'Mara

Treeforce's motto is to plant the right tree, at the right place, at the right time. Recent plantings have taken place at Aeroglen, along Freshwater Creek, and at the Kamerunga Environmental Park.

 

Phone: (07) 4053 7314 (ah)
Address: PO Box 74, Stratford 4870
Email: treeforcecairns@hotmail.com
Memberships: $10 single, $15 family
Meetings: First Monday of each month, regular weekend tree plantings.
Contact:   John Grant

The TKMG was formed in 1997 in response to the heightened awareness of the destruction of tree kangaroo habitat and the apparent lack of knowledge about Australia's largest arboreal mammal. The group is also interested in other FNQ mammals under pressure including the Yellow-bellied Glider, Tropical Bettong, Spotted-tail Quoll and Musky Rat-kanagaroo and the impact of introduced animals. The group is currently working on three Natural Heritage Trust funded projects concerning tree-kangaroos and rainforest remanants, Yellow-bellied Gliders and their wet sclerophyll habitat, and Spotted-tailed Quolls.

Address: PO Box 1409
Atherton Qld 4883
Email: info@tree-kangaroo.net
Website:

http://www.tree-kangaroo.net/

Memberships: $11
Meetings: First Thursday of each month, 7:30pm, Malanda Hotel
Visitors welcome.
Contact:   Doug Burchill

TREAT is a community-based tree planting group, currently with in excess of 500 family members, originally established in 1982. TREAT produces a quarterly newsletter for members, manages several projects supported by grants from several sources including the Natural Heritage Trust, works with government agencies, schools and landowners and holds monthly field days and regular tree planting sessions.

Phone: (07) 4095-3644
Address:

PO Box 1119
Atherton 4883

Email: burchill@qldnet.com
Website: http://www.treat.net.au/
Memberships: $15
Meetings: Working bee every Friday from 8 am to noon at the Centre for Tropical Restoration at Lake Eacham.
Contact:   Jane McLean/Russell Cummings

Magazine: Wildlife Australia Annual Subscription $33.00 p.a.

Townsville WPSQ is part of a network of branches of one of the state's oldest environmental groups. Townsville branch has an education program with public meetings, monthly field trips and a monthly newsletter. Members are also active campaigners with a current focus conservation issues.

Phone: (07) 4778 8474 (Jane)
Address: PO Box 857, Aitkenvale, QLD 4814
Email: townsvillet@wildlife.org.au
Memberships: $30 adults, $20 concession, $12.50 juniors, $45 household
Meetings: Third Wednesday of the month
Contact:   Peter Smith

Formed originally in 1972, this branch was the first FNQ wildlife group established in the Cairns area. The group expects its early focus to be on habitat preservation, crocodiles, flying-fox counts, cassowaries and other endangered species, marine species and other issues on the Atherton Tablelands and coastal areas from Cairns northwards. New volunteers and members are welcomed.

Phone: 0428 761 286
Address: 18 Mahogony Street
Ingham QLD 4850
Email: petersmith@h150.aone.net.au
Memberships: $30 adults, $20 concession, $12.50 juniors, $45 household
Meetings: Third Thursday of each month

 


 

 

 
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