Fauna Populations Management: Feral Pig Control Program Project

This project details a feral pig control program in the Yappar River area of Normanton, Australia, aimed at mitigating the negative impacts of feral pigs on agriculture and public health. The program's objective is to trap feral pigs to reduce the spread of exotic diseases like Swine fever and foot-and-mouth disease, as well as to protect crops and reduce soil erosion. The primary stakeholder is a property owner, David Hinrichsen. The program involves baiting and trapping techniques over six months, with a focus on drier periods when food is scarce. Baiting, using corn and sour grain, is employed to attract pigs for trapping. Post-program feedback from the stakeholder will assess the program's effectiveness, with success measured by comparing pig populations and damage levels before and after the intervention. The project also suggests incorporating shooting and harbor removal for more efficient pig removal.

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Feral pig control program
Location: Location where this program is going to launch or held is: Yappar River
Normanton. Norman riven is in the Gulf country, Australia. It had a population of around 1,257
people. The reason of selecting this location is to make it free from Feral pig as Feral pigs arrived
in Australia, and they are hurting agriculture and increasing disease as well.
It is found that feral pigs in this location eat meat and vegetable materials as well. They
can travel long distance in order to find food and to escape hurting pressure (Negus and et.al.,
2019). So, on the bass of behaviour of feral pigs, it can be said that they can hurt agriculture to
the great extent and can do anything in search of food.
Objective: The main objective of this program is to trap feral pigs because they are
leading or increasing exotic disease like Swine fever, foot and mouth disease. Other main
reasons of trapping feral pigs by this program is to protect agriculture from damages because
feral pigs are considered as one of the worst pest animal species in Australia, and they have
reproductive ability to double annually so, by this program, negative impacts on agriculture as
well as health of Austrian can be improved.
By trapping feral pigs, severe crop losses, vegetation damages, soil erosion and livestock
predation can be decreased to the great extent (Montes-Sánchez, Huato-Soberanis, Buntinx-Dios
and Leon-de La Luz, 2020.).
Stakeholder: Main stakeholder of this Feral pig control program is: David Hinrichsen,
owner of Property. He has intensive experience in restructuring advisory. He has worked with
wide variety of industries and subjects.
Time frame: There are numbers of activities that need to be performed such as: baiting
and trapping. Trapping numbers of pigs is not an easy task so, it will take around 6 months to
accomplish the main aim of this program. Most suitable timing for baiting and trapping will be
drier times as at that time food is available in few quantities.
Species assessment: There are numbers of management techniques that will be used in
this program such as: baiting and biological control. Baiting is one of the most effective ways of
achieving broad-scale feral pig population. Common baits that will be used in this technique
include: whole corn, sour grain, Carrian and livestock. It plays a vital role in attracting feral pigs
and by attracting them at one place, they can be trapped easily that is the main objective of this
program (Bengsen, West and Krull, 2017).

Feedback from program owner: After this program, feedback will be taken from the
main stakeholder or program owner in order to know its effectiveness and for improvements in
the future. On the basis of feedbacks, it is known that baiting and trapping techniques were
effective but along with this, shooting and harbour removal could also be used for trapping feral
pigs in a timely manner and in huge quantity. Success will be measured by comparing numbers
of pigs before and after this program and damages caused by feral pigs.

REFERENCES
Bengsen, A.J., West, P. and Krull, C.R., 2017. Feral pigs in Australia and New Zealand: range,
trend, management and impacts of an invasive species. Ecology, Conservation and
Management of Wild Pigs and Peccaries; Melletti, M., Meijaard, E., Eds. pp.325-338.
Montes-Sánchez, J.J., Huato-Soberanis, L., Buntinx-Dios, S.E. and Leon-de La Luz, J.L., 2020.
The Feral Pig in a Low Impacted Ecosystem: Analysis of Diet Composition and its
Utility. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 73(5). pp.703-711.
Negus, P.M. and et.al., 2019. No sitting on the fence: protecting wetlands from feral pig damage
by exclusion fences requires effective fence maintenance. Wetlands Ecology and
Management, 27(4), pp.581-585.