There’s a good reason why Queenstown is known as the adrenaline capital of the world. If you’ve got adrenaline activities on your bucket list, there’s a strong chance that activity was invented right here. We’re the birthplace of commercial bungy. Home of the world’s highest cliff jump, the…
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“We want locals to wake up to a dawn chorus of native birds; to see kea and rock wren regularly when you go into our mountains and kaka in our forests; for nature to return to our region.” That’s Paul Kavanagh’s vision for the future of Queenstown Lakes. Paul Kavanagh is the Project Director of…
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The Whakatipu Wildlife Trust’s vision is to create and maintain a predator-free environment in the Whakatipu Basin for New Zealand birds and other native wildlife to flourish. Queenstown’s pristine alpine landscapes can be misleading. It may not be obvious, the health of our native ecosystems is…
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That’s just the start of what’s on offer at The Great Glenorchy Alpine Base Camp. It opened at the end of December 2022, and is already attracting plenty of interest amongst those wanting to make the time to reconnect with the wilderness. “We are a low-tech, low-energy user with an environmentally…
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There’s the huge billboard: ‘Too special not to protect’. Then in what’s believed to be an airport-first, grabbing a coffee requires careful thought as reusable cups are encouraged (the airport is on a mission to remove single-use cups by the end of the year). Most obvious of all is the special…
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Here’s your guide to all the good things happening on our slopes, along with some ideas for how you can join the journey when you visit Queenstown this winter. Coronet Peak & The Remarkables Coronet Peak and The Remarkables ski areas are managed by NZSki, who see themselves as the Kaitiaki…
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Love Queenstown Community Fund kicks off It’s just the second day since the launch of the Love Queenstown and Love Wānaka Community Funds to support local climate, conservation and biodiversity initiatives, but it’s been a concept that’s almost two years in the making. The two community funds are…
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Luckily for Canyon Brewing, Director James Paterson is a lifelong farmer and an expert in growing grain. In November 2021, Canyon planted its first fields of barley in Queenstown and says it’s already reduced its carbon footprint by an estimated 7-14%. “We set out to reduce our carbon footprint by…
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This is a place with a ‘triple bottom line’ philosophy: an award-winning and continually measured commitment to the environment that sees it generate more energy than it uses; design a circular waste management system that feeds into three wetlands; restore the land with native tree and plant…
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We could hear the chatter, the laughter, even before we walked into the Jean Malpas Nursery at Kelvin Heights Peninsula. It was the trust’s regular Wednesday morning working bee, when members pot native trees to plant across the Whakatipu Basin. Their aim: to restore the indigenous landscape –…
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