The Central Otago/Remarkables hunting area comprises 38,000 hectares of public conservation land in the Central Otago block mountains. The landscape has very little closed canopy, and is characterised by tussock grassland, cushion fields, upland bogs, schist tors and saline areas.
Species present are goats, rabbits, hares, pigs and red deer, with some fallow deer in the northern Dunstan mountains and some chamois in the northern Remarkables.
Being in the rain shadow of the Southern Alps/Kā Tiritiri o te Moana, the area's climate is very dry with continental-like extreme of temperature between summer and winter.
Location
The Remarkables, Old Man Range and the Dunstan Mountains/Manuherikia Valley/Maniototo, as well as parts of the Teviot hinterland between Roxburgh and the Upper Taieri.