Wakatipu Basin, drone footage Queenstown, New Zealand

The Wakatipu Basin is a plain surrounded by mountains in Queenstown Lakes District, in the southern South Island of New Zealand
The Wakatipu Basin, with Queenstown as its main town and Arrowtown a secondary town, is a key location for the war between wilding pines and humans. On the human side, the war is led by the Department of Conservation (DOC), but there are also lots of community volunteers.
In its natural state, the Wakatipu Basin was stark. There were very few trees. And so the early European settlers planted trees that came from their homelands. These trees have greatly softened the landscape. Indeed much of the beauty of the valley floors is associated with these trees, particularly the deciduous trees in autumn.
The problem is that some of the evergreen conifer species are now marching across the landscape and invading the higher country which gives the Wakatipu Basin its grandeur. Remarkably, they can out-compete the natural vegetation and can thrive up to at least 1500 m altitude, far above the natural bush line. Over time they become a total smother.
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