Objective 5: Build capacity for feral pig management and raise feral pig awareness amongst landholders and land managers. Building capacity amongst landholders and land managers will enable them to undertake feral pig management more effectively and confidently. Raising awareness of feral pigs and their environmental impacts amongst landholders and managers will also increase their support for, and participation in, management and control measures. Measures for achieving this will include effectively communicating the outcomes of research. Building capacity in feral pig management links to the goals of the threat abatement plan by providing support for landholders protecting threatened species and ecological communities. There are many diverse views within the broader community, including Indigenous communities, on the value of feral pigs, and these may also vary within groups over time or location (See Background document for detail). Further understanding on how these values may be respected while also undertaking appropriate feral pig management is needed. It is also important to recognise the significant expertise some land managers, including Indigenous land managers, have from many years of on-the-ground experience managing feral pigs, and creating opportunities for the sharing, exchange and capturing of this knowledge. Priority/ Action Outcome Output Key Actioners timeframe Action 5.1: Increase High Increased capability Formal vocational TAFEs, delivery of training priority. to manage feral training courses universities, courses and/or pigs amongst (e.g. Certificate III in organisations extension programs landholders and Vertebrate Pest delivering Years 1–5. to build feral pig land managers. Management) agricultural and management skills available in all natural resource amongst states and management More feral pig landholders and management territories. advice (e.g. land managers Natural Resource undertaken by Management, landholders and Where records are Training courses / land managers. available, the Local Land extension programs Services, state ongoing delivery of will acquaint and territory vertebrate pest participants with: management government departments). current humane information or feral pig training at management agricultural and Delivery of training products and town shows, field takes place days and public formally through techniques meetings. courses or relevant legislation, workshops and including animal informally through Ongoing access of welfare legislation agricultural and feral pig training material available on town shows, field codes of practice days and public the PestSmart and standard meetings. operating Connect website () (developed by the procedures Invasive Animals the value of Cooperative monitoring, and Research Centre). basic techniques for
Objective 5: Build capacity for feral pig management and raise feral pig awareness amongst landholders and land managers. Building capacity amongst landholders and land managers will enable them to undertake feral pig management more effectively and confidently. Raising awareness of feral pigs and their environmental impacts amongst landholders and managers will also increase their support for, and participation in, management and control measures. Measures for achieving this will include effectively communicating the outcomes of research. Building capacity in feral pig management links to the goals of the threat abatement plan by providing support for landholders protecting threatened species and ecological communities. There are many diverse views within the broader community, including Indigenous communities, on the value of feral pigs, and these may also vary within groups over time or location (See Background document for detail). Further understanding on how these values may be respected while also undertaking appropriate feral pig management is needed. It is also important to recognise the significant expertise some land managers, including Indigenous land managers, have from many years of on-the-ground experience managing feral pigs, and creating opportunities for the sharing, exchange and capturing of this knowledge. Action Priority/ timeframe Outcome Output Key Actioners Action 5.1: Increase delivery of training courses and/or extension programs to build feral pig management skills amongst landholders and land managers Training courses / extension programs will acquaint participants with: current humane feral pig management products and techniques relevant legislation, including animal welfare legislation codes of practice and standard operating procedures the value of monitoring, and basic techniques for High priority. Years 1–5. Increased capability to manage feral pigs amongst landholders and land managers. More feral pig management undertaken by landholders and land managers. Formal vocational training courses (e.g. Certificate III in Vertebrate Pest Management) available in all states and territories. Where records are available, the ongoing delivery of vertebrate pest management information or training at agricultural and town shows, field days and public meetings. Ongoing access of feral pig training material available on the PestSmart Connect website () (developed by the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre). TAFEs, universities, organisations delivering agricultural and natural resource management advice (e.g. Natural Resource Management, Local Land Services, state and territory government departments). Delivery of training takes place formally through courses or workshops and informally through agricultural and town shows, field days and public meetings.
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