Feral Pig and Pest Program 2024-25
Local Land Services (LLS) is currently delivering the 2024-25 $13.1 million Feral Pig and Pest Program on behalf of the NSW Government following the success of the 2023-24 Feral Pig Program.
The program will be delivered from August 2024 to June 2025 and builds on the control activities that LLS has coordinated with landholders across the state in previous years.
The Feral Pig and Pest Program 2024-25 aims to:
- support landholders in controlling feral pigs and pest animals
- reduce the impacts of feral pigs and pest animals on agricultural and environmental assets
- build landholder capability in feral pig and other pest animal management
- maintain workforce capability to support pest animal control and coordination.
Key activities of the Feral Pig and Pest Program include:
- coordinated broadscale control programs targeting feral pigs and other priority pest animal species in key locations across the state to further support existing landholder driven programs
- providing land managers with the knowledge, skills and support to implement control programs on their land
- promoting and employing best practice management techniques for reducing feral pig and other priority pest animal populations
- educating landholders in their General Biosecurity Duty responsibilities related to managing pest animals under the Biosecurity Act 2015
- engaging landholders to participate in control programs
- maintaining a trained biosecurity workforce with the skills, experience and capacity to assist landholders to manage invasive species
- continuing the role of the NSW State Feral Pig Coordinator to lead and coordinate the program
- establishing localised monitoring programs of feral pigs and other priority pest animal species
- providing subsidised 1080 poison to eligible landholders for feral pig baiting.
Support for landholders
The Feral Pig and Pest Program will support landholders in controlling feral pig and pest animal populations and reducing the impacts on their properties’ agricultural and environmental assets, with LLS:
- coordinating regional aerial and ground control programs
- delivering capacity building events to equip landholders with the latest tools and advice to continue actively managing pest animals on their property
- providing free Vertebrate Pesticide Induction Training (VPIT) courses online and face-to-face at various locations around the state
- fully subsiding the cost of 1080 poison to eligible landholders up to 30 June 2025 to help control feral pigs
- local biosecurity officers providing tailored advice on pest animal management and assisting landholders understand their obligations.
Progress update: October 2024
For highlights of the work now underway, download and read the complete October progress update PDF, 1107.05 KB.
How do I get involved?
Landholder participation in control programs is essential. The more landholders taking part in control programs, the more successful we will be in reducing pest animal numbers and impacts, protecting farming operations and the environment.
Under the Biosecurity Act 2015, all landholders have a responsibility to manage pest animals on their land, and this program assists landholders in meeting their General Biosecurity Duty (GBD).
Your local biosecurity officer has the expertise to support you with advice to suit your situation.
To get involved in the Feral Pig and Pest Program or find out what activities are happening in your area, call LLS on 1300 795 299 and ask to speak with your local biosecurity officer.
How do I find out more?
To learn more about pest animal management and the support offered by LLS call your local biosecurity officer on 1300 795 299.
Landholder success
Hear direct from landholders who have received our support and are having success with their feral pig control methods.