Sanctuary is a living space and intentional community for forest restoration workers—people dedicating their lives and labor to the healing of native Hawaiian ecosystems. It exists to support those who care for the land by offering a place of refuge, belonging, and deep connection to ʻāina.

 

At its heart is a simple but vital understanding: the ecological need for habitat restoration and the human need for wellbeing are not separate. They are fundamentally the same. When we care for the land, we are also caring for ourselves. When the land is nurtured, people are restored alongside it.

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What Is Sanctuary?

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Sanctuary Kamaole is dedicated to restoring native Hawaiian forests while creating a sustainable home base for the people doing that work. Through forest restoration, land stewardship, and community living, Sanctuary reconnects people with ʻāina and with one another.

We believe that caring for the Earth and caring for ourselves are inseparable. A thriving forest depends on healthy, supported humans—and healthy humans need living relationships with land, water, and place. Learn more about the vision here. 

 

How You Can Join

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Support hands-on work protecting, propagating, and planting native seedlings, and restoring damaged ecosystems. Help grow trees, increase freshwater supply, build climate resilience, and sustain this work for future generations. Learn forest restoration, stewardship, and cultural practice through immersive, place-based mentorship.

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Why It Matters

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• Protects watersheds and biodiversity

• Revives cultural landscapes and land relationships

• Builds resilience against wildfire and climate change

• Heals land and people together

 

Sanctuary focuses on renewing watershed function and restoring maximum coexistence and biodiversity—particularly for native and endemic species that once flourished in the Leeward Haleakalā forest ecosystems.

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