Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka ʻĀina I Ka Pono. The life of the land is perpetuated in righteous.
What is Pili Nā Moku
Pili Nā Moku is a multi-year initiative supported by the University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program to strengthen moku-based coastal resilience across Hawaiʻi.
Kingdom Pathways serves as the Waiʻanae Regional Facilitator, connecting our community to the process and helping ensure local ʻike, lived experiences, and priorities guide the work.
Through community coastal mapping, community knowledge is combined with technical coastal data to create regional coastline maps that will help guide Phase 2 an action-oriented coastal adaptation strategy for Waiʻanae.
Why Waiʻanae?
Waiʻanae's coastline is experiencing increasing pressures from coastal erosion, sea level rise, storm impacts, flooding, and changing environmental conditions. At the same time, community members hold generations of knowledge about these places, their history, and how they have changed over time.
Pili Nā Moku creates space for community members, cultural practitioners, organizations, and agencies to come together to share ʻike, identify priorities, and help guide future planning efforts for the Waiʻanae Moku.
Our Approach
Pili Nā Moku combines:
- Community conversation mapping
- Oral histories and storytelling
- Traditional ecological knowledge
- Environmental and coastal data
- Place-based planning
- Community-led decision making
Through this process, local knowledge is elevated alongside technical information to better understand challenges and opportunities facing our coastline and communities.
What We Hope to Achieve
Pili Nā Moku seeks to:
- Elevate community voice in planning processes.
- Document ʻike kūpuna and community knowledge.
- Identify coastal vulnerabilities and community priorities.
- Support informed adaptation and resilience planning.
- Help guide future funding, restoration, opportunities.
- Protect places and resources important to future generations.
Our Hālāwai and Events
Pili Nā Moku is a multi-year journey. Each community gathering builds upon the last creating opportunities to share ʻike, identify changes along our coastline, map places that matter, and help shape how Waiʻanae prepares for the future.
Your manaʻo matters. Please join us at our next community gathering and help shape the future of our coastline.
Saturday, May 30, 2026
Community Learning Center at Mā'ili
Saturday, August 22, 2026
Community Learning Center at Mā'ili
Date: Coming Soon
Wai'anae Moku
Aloha Kākou
Your kōkua helps restore ʻāina, protect wai, and uplift ea for our keiki and future generations. It supports the full scope of Kingdom Pathways work from native restoration and shade tree planting, to water quality monitoring and environmental health, to youth leadership, cultural education, and community advocacy.
Every dollar goes directly into community-driven solutions rooted in ʻike kupuna and guided by community voice.