Feral Pigs – Control & Coordination

Feral pigs are estimated to be an excess of 3.5 million across Australia, with abundant and widespread populations from North Queensland to the Channel Country.

Not only do these destructive pests cost Australian agriculture over $100 million each year through stock loss, crop loss, infrastructure damage and disease spread – feral pigs remain one of Queensland’s most destructive environmental pests as a “scourge” on natural resources and pollute waterways, erode land, spread weeds, predate on animals and destroy wildlife food sources and nesting sites.

Pigs do not follow property boundaries.

Desert Channels Queensland is partnering with local governments, graziers, indigenous rangers and landholders to facilitate coordinated, landscape-scale feral pig control activities.

• Capturing data on where feral pigs are
• Creating “links” between existing feral pig control efforts
• Facilitating more feral pig control efforts – more boots-on-the-ground conducting coordinated controls, including shooting, baiting and trapping to keep populations down in our region
• Get the word out there about new, best-practice techniques
• Build a communications network to coordinate responses to feral pig management across six Queensland regions
• Improving risk management and disease preparedness.

Desert Channels Queensland is working with organisations and individuals putting effort into feral pig management now to see how we can help increase impact across larger areas of landscape. Councils and landholders already invest significantly into feral pig control, and so we want to improve knock down rates and coordination overall.

Our goal is to time and target control efforts – like baiting, trapping and shooting – when pigs are most vulnerable to deliver long-term population suppression, not just short-term relief.

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If you’re a landholder or someone who is controlling the spread of feral pigs, we’d love to hear from you. Contact us via info@dcq.org.au or call 07 4658 0600.

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