KAWATIRI NATURE ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES TRUST
Connecting people, ideas and actions
Change doesn't happen alone
KNECT is a catalyst for change. It brings together people, expertise, funding and practical action to support projects that strengthen our communities, restore our environment and create opportunities for future generations.
KNECT helps good ideas become reality.
Community-led change in actionIn partnership with community groups, organisations, and landowners:
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Major collaborative initiatives currently underway
25,000+
Native seedlings planted
14,000+
Hectares now within Kawatiri ki Tōtara restoration plans for the wider landscape
Almost350,000
Hectares across three planned landscape-scale restoration projects
$1.2M+
Community investment leveraged
1,000+
Predator traps in place within Kawatiri ki Tōtara
Our Projects
From ecological restoration and local food resilience to education and community wellbeing, KNECT helps ambitious ideas become reality.
Cycling Without Age – Kawatiri
One of the big gaps for our community, both here in Buller Kawatiri and nationally, is tramping huts that are designed with young families in mind.
Paparoa Predator Free
Local food systems provide a multitude of economic benefits to local communities, from the creation of local jobs and new industry opportunities like food tourism
Gentle Annie Nature Experience Facility
Tramping huts for young families
The KNECT difference
KNECT is about ordinary people creating extraordinary outcomes together.
The best ideas emerge when communities work together, share knowledge and back each other to succeed. KNECT exists to connect people, expertise, funding and practical action so that good ideas have the support they need to thrive.