Staglands Wildlife Reserve & Cafe offers a unique and exciting opportunity for people to feed and freely interact with wildlife in a natural environment. It is a beautiful tourist attraction, the product of one man’s passion and vision to experience nature at its best, located in the beautiful Akatarawa Valley in Upper Hutt, near Wellington. Staglands is a ‘must see’ attraction for all tourists visiting the Wellington region. "It is my belief that an enormously rewarding and lifelong appreciation of wildlife can be kindled by a brief, intense encounter with an animal or a bird...Staglands is my attempt to provide that encounter in an environment that is as good as I can possibly make it''. (Founder, John Simister)