Local Land Services (LLS) is offering the 2024-25 $13.1 million Feral Pig and Pest Program on behalf of the NSW Government, from August 2024 to June 2025.

It builds on the control actions that LLS has synchronized with landowners statewide in earlier years.

The program 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, and maintain workforce capability to support pest animal control and coordination.

Key activities of the program are many, and include a 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 includes 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

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.