Greater Wellington parks and forests: hunting permit and how to apply

Greater Wellington parks and forests

Red deer and pigs and feral-goat · Akatarawa, Kaitoke and Pakuratahi, and pig hunting in East Harbour · run by Greater Wellington Regional Council

By permit

One online form for the regional council's hunting permits. The deer ballots for Wainuiomata and East Harbour are listed separately above.

Akatarawa, Kaitoke, Pakuratahi: One permit covers all three
East Harbour pigs: May to February; no pig hunting in March and April
Firearms: Centre-fire .222 Remington or larger, or bows
Dogs: No more than three per hunter

How to apply: Greater Wellington

Exactly as Greater Wellington publishes it

The Akatarawa, Kaitoke and Pakuratahi areas have one permit to cover all these hunting areas.
Permits are issued for a period of 10 months (May to February), there is NO pig hunting during March and April
only centre-fire rifles of calibre .222 Remington or larger may be used for hunting
No more than three (3) hunting dogs are allowed per permitted hunter.

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 Wellington/Kapiti · The year on one chart

Also in Wellington/Kapiti

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.