Rotorua Lakes and surrounds

Located in the Bay of Plenty region

The Rotorua Lakes area covers approximately 35,000 hectares of public land, made up of relatively small reserves bordered mostly by farmland, pine forest or lakes.

Pig hunting is popular in the Rotorua Lakes area, concentrated mainly on the vast privately owned pine forests. Often this hunting is regulated through hunting clubs within the forestry organisation.

Red deer, Sambar deer, Dama wallaby and low populations of goats, can all be found on public conservation land in the Rotorua Lakes area.