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Central Otago-Lakes
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About our Branch
The membership of this branch of the Society extends throughout a wide area, between Queenstown, Alexandra, Wanaka, Lake Hawea and Makarora, where the branch is active in numerous projects related to the conservation of native flora and fauna, and the preservation of valuable natural landscape features.
These include -
- inspecting and making submissions in response to tenure reviews of high country properties;
- educating and arranging for a group of young people from the Mount Aspiring College to plant native plants in public places such as the Wanaka Millennium Walkway;
- arranging weekly weed-control and native planting on the foreshore of Lake Hawea; weed-clearing and replanting in the Lindis Pass reserve;
- And participating with the Department of Conservation in a stoat control project near the Haast Pass highway, to protect a breeding area of the native Mohua (Yellowhead).
The branch is represented in several other groups with related interests in conservation and public access to the high country, to the Clutha River and to reserves containing flora and fauna of special interest.
The Central Otago-Lakes branch committee arranges an annual programme of visits to areas of interest, including both one-day and two-day trips. These take us to places as near as the Old Man Range and as distant as Doubtful Sound.