Strategic Partners
Ministry of Social Development
MSD and KMR have a Memorandum of Understanding to work together to support local employment and skills development of relevance to KMR projects. In our latest collaboration, MSD and KMR partnered with a Kaipara Uri provider to upskill and train local rangatahi for a variety of KMR-affiliated skills and roles.
Fonterra
KMR’s partnership with Fonterra has accelerated the uptake of farm planning in the catchment and helped dairy farmers to take action faster to restore wetlands, protect waterways, and retire steep areas on farm, in line with their Tiaki Plans. KMR planting can also help Fonterra farmers achieve on-farm carbon storage, and meet environmental standards and market requirements.
Te Uri o Hau Environs
As the environmental arm of one of the Kaipara Uri signatories to the KMR MOU, Environs Te Uri o Hau plays a lead role in ensuring effective support for local whānau, hapū and marae aspirations to protect and restore the Kaipara Moana.
The Forest Bridge Trust
Working together in the South Kaipara area, KMR and The Forest Bridge Trust offer advice, practical know-how and resources to boost on-the-ground environmental action and support local aspirations. With a focus on ecological connectivity, the partnership unlocks support for projects that restore river margins, streams and surrounding landscapes and reduce sediment flows into the Kaipara harbour.
QE II National Trust
KMR and the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust work in partnership to ‘lock in’ the biodiversity gains from fencing and planting waterways. In particular, landowners and groups working with KMR to fence off and protect remnant forests on the land may be able to benefit from additional co-funding.
NZ Association of Resource Management
Through our collaboration with NZARM, KMR is helping develop and roll-out national training courses to support our Field Advisors to obtain skills and qualifications. Our courses apply te ao Māori and scientific approaches to demonstrate complementary ways to understand and mitigate erosion risk in the landscape.
Trees That Count
Through our partnership, KMR has become the largest recipient nationally of native trees donated by Trees That Count. These trees are used to support community and public-good projects across the catchment to restore Aotearoa’s unique biodiversity, take action to reduce climate risk and remediate areas on the land that have significantly affected by cyclones and floods.
Wai Connection
By joining forces, the Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust’s Wai Connection Programme and KMR are boosting community efforts to protect and restore rivers and streams in the Kaipara Moana catchment.
The collaboration empowers local groups to reduce sediment in the waterways by restoring native habitat, and supports Enviroschools to work with tamariki in the community to protect local waterways.
Conservation Volunteers New Zealand
The CVNZ and KMR partnership empowers young and old to act as kaitiaki for nature and make a difference in their local environment. CVNZ and KMR have teamed up to run planting days across the Southern part of the Kaipara Moana catchment, harnessing the power of volunteers to support landowners and groups working with KMR to get trees in the ground.