Kaipātiki Project | Environmental Groups

Growing sustainable future for people and nature

Based in Auckland’s North, Kaipātiki Project is an innovative EcoHub, growing a sustainable future for people and nature. We do this by empowering people, inspiring connection with nature and enabling sustainable living.

Along with over 1,000 volunteers annually, we run a thriving native plant nursery where we grow 40,000+ native plants every year and plant them back in the local reserves. We facilitate forest, stream and estuary regeneration days, promote zero waste and encourage local food initiatives.

We started in 1998, when a small group of enthusiastic volunteers weeded a local reserve to prevent the small forest fragment degrading further. Soon the neighbours were regularly volunteering their time and energy restoring local bush reserves.

We signed the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Declaration: a commitment to the advancement of the SDGs in Aotearoa. The SDG Declaration recognises the urgent need to foster collaboration and support pathways towards the SDGs in Aotearoa, with Te Tiriti o Waitangi underpinning our actions. The SDGs are designed to be "A blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all people and the world by 2030".

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Ko Oruamo te awa

Ko Te Hau Kapua te takiwā

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Ko Te Rōpu Kaipātiki tamore mātou

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This pepeha was kindly gifted to Kaipātiki Project by Matua Pat Ruka.

We have steadily grown over the years, and as Auckland’s North only EcoHub, we continue to inspire communities to regenerate local bush reserves and live sustainably.

Every year, our projects protect and restore the biodiversity of the Kaipātiki area and the wider Auckland North.

Our nursery grows 40,000+ eco-sourced native plants annually for community regeneration projects, private backyard programmes, the Auckland Mayor’s Million Trees project and other inspiring destinations. Our work is regularly recognised and used as case studies.

Every year we deliver sustainable living events, experiences and educational opportunities for everyone.

We have a reciprocal relationship with Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, with a shared methodology to our plant nurseries, and shared learning programmes for staff, volunteers and community.

We maintain a community-driven, eco-sourced, chemical-free kaupapa.