City Forests — Waipori and Silverpeaks: hunting permit and how to apply

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City Forests — Waipori and Silverpeaks

Hunting blocks · Waipori and Silverpeaks forests, near Dunedin · run by City Forests (owned by Dunedin City Council)

By permit

Three public hunting blocks, allocated by ballot from online applications. Walk-in, weekends, daylight only.

Blocks: Two in Waipori Forest, one in Silverpeaks
How allocated: By a regular ballot of the applications
When: Weekends, daylight only; closed in high fire risk and high wind
Access: Walk-in only
Apply: Online, at least two weeks ahead

How to apply: City Forests

Exactly as City Forests publishes it

There are two public hunting blocks in the Waipori Forest and one block in the Silverpeaks Forest.
will be issued after a regular ballot from the applications submitted
The hunting blocks are available at weekends during daylight hours only
Hunting permits are walk-in only, no vehicle access is available.
to be applied for at least two weeks in advance
the Waipori 3 hunting block is now managed by the Taieri District Hunting Club

Recent cutting in this forest

The map shows where the trees were cleared in each year since 2011, coloured by age: yellow for the last three years, orange for four to seven, brown for older. In a plantation that age decides what you walk into: open slash and new seedlings, then thick regrowth, then a closing canopy.

See the cutting on the map What the colours mean

Satellite-detected tree loss, so slips, storms and fire show up too. It says nothing about where this permit lets you go: the permit and the forest’s own map decide that, and an active harvest is closed.

Hunting in Otago · The year on one chart

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The ballots, bookings, fees and rules belong to the organisers — we list them, we don’t run them. We last read this on Fri 9 Oct 2026 and check the page every day; if it changes, the details come off until we have read it again.