Berwick Forest, New Zealand

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Berwick Forest is a large Pinus Radiata (Pine) plantation located southwest of Dunedin at Berwick. It is owned by Chinese company Wenita. The forest lies close to the banks of the Waipori River immediately below and around the western end of Lake Mahinerangi.

Throughout the forest are wild deer and pigs and it is a favourite forest of many hunters from Dunedin and Otago.

The forest was subject to a large forest fire in the late 1990s that several square kilometres of trees, and caused $NZ 12 million ($US 7 million) worth of damage. The cause of the fire was thought to have been sunlight shining though discarded glass.