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Kaingaroa and Rotoehu forests

Run by Kaingaroa Tipu, through First Security. Every detail below is quoted from their own page and checked against it every day.

Kaingaroa and Rotoehu forests

Hunting, fishing and game birds · Kaingaroa and Rotoehu forests, Bay of Plenty · run by Kaingaroa Tipu, through First Security

By permit

An annual forest access permit, applied for online. Not a ballot — but you need it before you go in.

Permit
Recreational Forest Access permit, every year
Fee
$50 per person aged 15 or over
Processing
Allow 14 working days
When
Permits are emailed around 27 April, for the hunting season
How to apply: First Security
Exactly as First Security publishes it
  • must apply annually
  • The registration fee per person (15 years and over) is $50 including GST.
  • Please allow 14 working days for processing of recreational permits.
  • ALL permits will be emailed to email address used on application on or around the 27

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 Bay of Plenty · 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.