Hör auf mit den Aufkleber!

I’ve noticed a trend for visitors to apply stickers from their origin country to various objects in New Zealand. This probably isn’t awesome in and off itself, but it is an especially poor practice in the natural environment.

The country does make a rather large effort to keep the wilderness here, as best possible, free of man-made detritus. It’s a bit annoying then to have non-biodegradable stickers unnecessarily adhered to signage and objects in the wilderness areas.

This is an example seen recently in Tongariro National Park.

This one was seem at Huka Falls, near Lake Taupo.

Keep those stickers in your backpack!