Status: In Progress
Start date: 15 May 2021
Completion date: 1 June 2027
Project code: A-028
Species/Threats:
Feral deer, Feral pigs
Summary
Pest animals cause significant damage to agricultural and environmental assets across NSW and elsewhere across Australia. This in turn leads to economic and social impacts.
This project is intended to deliver management solutions (tools and practices) that can be put into the hands of land managers to minimise these impacts.
Objectives
The aims of this project are to:
- Establish cost-effective methods for controlling feral pigs, deer, and other vertebrate pests for landholders in NSW.
- Evaluate the use of ‘Judas’ (collared) animals to control pigs and deer and may demonstrate how fencing can exclude multiple pests from high-value agricultural sites, including piggeries. Activities may include optimising the Judas animal technique, managing feral pigs around piggeries, assessing and rapidly controlling pig damage in crops, understanding the movements of pigs and deer, developing smart exclusion fences, refining control strategies for peri-urban deer, evaluating the effectiveness of sporting shooters and creating an early-warning system for mouse plagues
Project team
Project team
Sebastian Comte
Project Lead
| NSW DPIRD
Project partners
