PHOTO: Now is the time to take advantage of Central West Local Land Services’ offer of fully funded treatment for landholder grain, as a way to control growing populations of feral pigs.
Central West Local Land Services (CWLLS) Invasive Species Team Leader, Nigel Boyce, says the time to control feral pigs is now.
To assist landholders, the CWLLS is offering fully funded treatment of grain as a method of reducing numbers.
Feral pigs have significant impacts on agricultural production and the environment and are also a host and vector for numerous endemic and exotic diseases and parasites that affect both people and livestock.
Mr Boyce said the aim of treating grain for landholders to bait pigs is to give them a helping hand with control methods…