Goal 2: Reducing feral pig damage
TARGET: A benefit of $16 million per annum by reducing feral pig damage by 15%
Outputs
- New knowledge on feral pig ecology and impacts
- PIGOUT® – First generation manufactured shelf-stable feral pig bait that exhibits high target specificity
- HOG-GONE® – Second generation feral pig toxin with improved humaneness profile
- Additional feral pig management technologies and bait technologies
- Feral pig baits with capacity to carry contraceptives and/or vaccines (in collaboration with USA and UK scientists)
- Feral pig management packages that include new and existing toxins, application strategies and end-user training
Projects
- PhD: Feral pig Achilles’ heel (Brendan Cowled – Complete and PhD conferred)
- Demonstration site: Management program for deer, pigs, goats and cats on Kangaroo Island, SA (10.U.2)
- PhD: Understanding and mitigating domestic pig and wildlife interactions (Hayley Pearson)
- Demonstration site: Controlling feral pigs in tropical rainforests, Qld (10.U.6)
- PhD: Environmental impacts of feral pigs on coastal lowland rainforests (Amanda Elledge)
- PhD: Controlling feral pigs in tropical rainforests (Andrew Bengsen)
- PhD: Conflict in feral pig management in the wet tropics (Carla Meurk)
- MSc: Economics of feral pig damage and management in the wet tropics (Kana Koichi)
- Hons: Long-term environmental impacts of feral pigs on tropical lowland rainforest (Domonique Taylor – Complete and conferred)
Relevant projects included under other goals
