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Kanuka-Waiwera Partnership
This partnership was initially formed by a group of four friends who joined forces in 1994 to purchase a 13 hectare block of land near Little River on Banks Peninsula.
The partnership was formed with a key goal of fostering regeneration of the remnants of native forest on that land with a broader vision for the future of “creating and restoring a place of peace, richness and ecological integrity, while fostering land stewardship, sustainable livelihoods, healthy family and community living and respectful relationships.”
The partners noted on taking stewardship that the land had suffered from decades of poor management beginning with the logging and burning of the original forest, followed by years of conventional farming practises on land poorly suited to that.
Since 1994 they have organically planted over 3,500 trees, livestock has been excluded and pests and weeds controlled.
When one of the original partners wanted to move on and sell his share a search for new partners resuklted. These new partners then approached Prometheus in 2001, both to enable the new partners to buy in to the property but also to facilaitate some further development.
These developments included repairs to the internal access road, building a bridge to protect the styream and building some modest short-stay accomodation for the partners when they are doing the reforestation, pest control and ecosystem preservation work.