The Catlins hunting area consists of over 50 000 hectares of beech, podocarp and kamahi-rata forest. Most of the area is inland, in the Catlins Conservation Park, a challenging area dominated by a complex series of parallel ridges. On the coast there are blocks with gentler, but still heavily forested, terrain.
Species present are goats, pigs and red deer.
The climate is cool and moist with the watersheds of the Catlins Conservation Park particularly exposed to wet weather.
Location
The Catlins Conservation Park spans the Catlins, Maclennan, Tautuku, Mokoreta and Waikawa River catchments, and parts of the Kaihiku and Wisp Ranges. The rest of the hunting area is coastal reserves between Owaka and Chaslands.