Unique program aims to eliminate feral pigs and wild deer from Otways landscape 🐖🦌 | ABC Australia

[@HP1050]

The Feral Pig problem is very very bad in QLD around the Macadamia orchards in particular, trapping works initially but they work it out pretty quickly.

[@DuckReach432]

My parents now have wild deer regularly on their property on the edge of Launceston. The problem is, hunters were given strict quotas to allow deer population growth when they were introduced. That still applies, even though the feral numbers are exploding and the number of hunters has dropped off a lot in recent decades.

[@michelledafinis3601]

Trap em , sell em

[@andrewsmith2307]

What do you expect given that hunters have been demonised to the point that there are not enough left to keep the feral animal populations under control.

[@davidbell1676]

Like new Zealand the thing missing here is venison pies in a red wine sauce.

[@johnsmith9161]

Pig Brig is very popular in the United States I am surprised it is not used in Australia as a pig trap the science behind it is amazing.

[@FeralPestControl]

Agree. The Pig Brig design allows the trap to continue working even when pigs are caught and it does not have to monitored (remotely) and triggered to close, unlike the trap door approach shown here. So effective and working whilst you sleep 🙂

[@sonofagreatsouthernland]

The notion these creatures are sweet and harmless, built up by countless hollywood movies has to be addressed by raw damage images so we can come to the realisation they have to be removed. Great production on this segment ABC.

[@scottthompson9220]

You are one of these miss informed radicals that want ever introduced animal removed from the landscape but them selves advising the public on un founded amounts of money lost from farm production and damage to the environment never publishing the thousands of dollars hunting adds to the economy or the fact that some farmers charge hunters to shoot the deer on their property deer have been here as long as white settlers and should be managed not eradicated

[@26144]

Just let hunters in. And change laws so the meat can be processed

[@bennichols1113]

That would ruin their industry of being pathetic complainers about problems they won't address.

[@andrewturk6562]

Thats what they should do your right mate but will they do this

[@elisgiaz3928]

Bravo!

[@dieseldavetrains8988]

Foxes, hares, pigs and goats are huge feral issues (not to mention feral dogs & cats) in western NSW, trouble is, nothing gets done until the populations are way out of control and severe damage is caused. You do the right thing and report to LLS, NSW Parkes and local councils and sweet FA is done.🤔

[@nicholaswirth1011]

At least DPI allow hunting in state forests Cant do that in QLD

[@scottthompson9220]

Humans are the ferals never seen a deer clearing forests , damming water ways , building thousands of houses, fishing the oceans and adding to climate change 😂

[@keegan773]

A dear hunter named Roe !!!

[@InTheDarknessWhereIDwell]

You thinking of Doe? Roe is fish eggs.

[@WTU208]

You can't beat a bit of venison & you have it on tap.

[@paulsouth4794]

Delicious.. we have just had organic free range venison for boxing day dinner

[@jaredbrady5566]

So the Deers make their way to the plate, but how are they disposing of the pigs?

[@dilligaf2818]

Hunters wont try to elimate any ferals cause they wont have nothing to hunt in their area. I have known people to let pigs go in areas closer to where they live so they dont have to travel as far to hunt ...go figure.

[@GreytDays-rx5sg]

Tricks and traps It would be a good little project for Duntroon to observe i think In outsmarting a animal with an fair degree of intelligence in how it survives and what works, why it works how to improvise and integrate in way they can understand

[@kenWindrum]

Just have a look at the program in the USA way that millions of feral Hogs are trapped, - and the scale of damage is done to farmland and crops. So, let's start that here in Australia before the wild bores take over our farms.

[@marksaul2281]

When has Australia or New Zealand ever succeeded in a eradicating a feral animal problem?

[@Duke-le6vy]

The government needs to allow us to hunt in National Parks. With large tracts of land off limits to hunting deer and pigs have safe refuge.

[@silentvoiceinthedark5665]

It is a good thing the Australians did not import grizzly bears, tigers and lions a 150 years ago.

[@LaurenceDay-d2p]

The tigers would have controlled the camel population.

[@wozzatherockdog1778]

Harvesting individual animals for select restaurants I can’t see impacting wild animal numbers. Given the flighty nature of Deer, it’s not like culling mobs of kangaroos. Most hunters will see the logic being illogical.

[@scottthompson9220]

Mate 52 thousand deer licenses sold in Victoria in 2024 I recon there having more of an impact on the deer population than broadcasted

[@brianlau4207]

What do they do with the pigs once they trap them? Are they sold to someone else? Does it become a luau situation immediately after?

[@mariokery7155]

Drones are your answer to solving the feral cats and foxes and deer, pig's. It's modifying the drones to identify, like facial recognition and night vision, heat sensors and the drones can eliminate the pest species.

[@jessdatip4152]

This is nothing new. Trapping hogs has been done this way in the US for many years.

[@markharris4421]

Its certainly not new in Australia either mate.

[@royhay5741]

Dingoes and livestock guardian donkeys for those dingoes. If the piglets are striped, it means they're native Papuan hogs, like those in the Wet Tropics.

[@brycenew]

Need the same initiative for feral horses in the Snowies.

[@user-su5lo8hr3c]

😂Lol, wrong if they live in %40 of Vic then it's Vic's problem. WOW all in the first 30seconds

[@soyoucametosee7860]

So you are harvesting. So you must be making money on this harvesting. What a life. You are ranching with out much work.

[@michaelp998]

Yep, too many deer in the UK, causing forest damage & road havoc. Another species that’s out of control.

[@scottthompson9220]

What about humans there in plagues 😂😂

[@bigears4014]

The government makes money from the deer's, the farmer pays feeding them

[@clancywong]

😅so much free meat , yet no ones eat them but spends loads of cash going to the supermarket.😅

[@peterpiper-v5i]

animals are native to planet earth

[@roniloquirante.amazonmarketing]

😢

[@Darkstar001]

Why does so much of ABCs content just seem like and ad for someones business.

[@oftin_wong]

Why did the government let deer in for hunting ...and then we say its an alarming rate at which they are spreading ? We had rabbits and foxes and cats ...so who doesnt know the risks of introducing a new animal ?

[@scottthompson9220]

Deer have nearly been here for as long as white settlers and they certainly haven’t changed the landscape like the plague of humans have 😂

[@RubyMcnuby]

Money is money right,