Status: Completed
Start date: 30 December 2005
Completion date: 30 December 2019
Project code: N/A
Species: Feral pigs
The HOGGONE® project has been ongoing since 2005 through the Invasive Animals CRC, Animal Control Technologies Australia and Meat & Livestock Australia.
During this time, the project has been developing formulations of sodium nitrite and a new bait, HOGGONE®, for feral pig control so that additional tools are available in the future for the ever-expanding number of feral pigs in Australia.
Sister projects to this effort in Australia are the registration of HOGGONE® in NZ (led by Connovation) and in the USA (led by the USDA National Wildlife Research Center, NWRC) for wild hog control.
This project will finalise the HOGGONE® research trials undertaken through the Invasive Animals CRC which will add considerable strength to regulatory applications.