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:
7
Major collaborative initiatives currently underway
25,000+
Native seedlings planted
14,000+
Hectares now within Kawatiri ki Tōtara restoration plans for the wider landscape
Almost 350,000
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
Cycling Without Age – Kawatiri is a community-led initiative helping people with limited mobility to experience the outdoors by riding in a custom-designed ‘trishaw’ bike.
Paparoa Predator Free
Paparoa Predator Free (PPF) aims to establish a Predator Free 2050 project in the northern Te Tai Poutini West Coast within the rohe of Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Waewae.
Gentle Annie Nature Experience Facility
Building new trails and an overnight experience suitable for families with to get a taste of New Zealand's backcountry huts, wonderful native bush, and stunning views.
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.