PHOTO: Local landholder, Mark Thompson, who is one of the 9 landholders delivering a project through the Fencing Biosecure Production Zones and Pest Knockout Grant Program, standing next to an exclusion fence on his property.
Our unique Western Plains environment will soon receive better protection from pest animals and weeds, thanks to exclusion fencing projects.
Local landholders have been involved in nine projects which sees 376 kilometres of fencing erected, effectively enclosing 331,170 hectares.
The joint effort between Western Local Land Services and local farmers will not only protect against grazing pressure from feral pigs, wild dogs and kangaroos but it will also act as a biosecurity measure for any emergency animal health outbreak such as foot and mouth or lumpy skin disease…