Feral Animal Management

Feral Animal Management

problem native wildlife

feral animals

ecology & native fauna

sustainable species utilisation

Feral Animal Management

Vertebrate pest animals include introduced species, commonly referred to as feral animals, which have become widespread in many regions of Australia.

Feral animal populations have resulted in significant negative impacts on our biodiversity, agriculture, natural environment and public health including:

Environmental costs can include biosecurity risks & exotic disease outbreak, destruction of habitat & predation of threatened native species, spreading of weeds, plant disease transmission, land degradation and detrimental impacts on waterways and water quality.
Economic impacts are significant & particularly affect agricultural industries through spread of plant diseases, damage to crops & pasture, damage to fencing, predation on livestock & competition for feed.
Communities can be adversely affected by predation on domestic pets, damage to culturally significant sites on indigenous lands, residential property damage, & health issues such diseases carried by feral pigs and buffalo (eg Brucellosis)

Our Key Services

Our feral animal management capabilities include:

ground/aerial surveys
baseline field assessments
hazard & risk assessments
population estimates & modelling
management plans, strategy & recommendations
management action & population control programs
non-lethal control
- dispersal
- capture & relocation
- trapping
- exclusion & cluster fencing
ethical lethal control
- ground/aerial platform
- trapping
- poisoning
- Judas animal programs
advice on specialised equipment
program review & adaptive management
GIS analysis & mapping

Our Approach

Our focus is on delivering practical results for land holders and land managers in the long term. We combine our significant scientific expertise, knowledge of vertebrate pest ecology and feral animal behaviour and extensive experience implementing feral animal management programs in the field to develop effective management programs.

We work closely with clients to identify their desired outcomes and take care to understand the actual problem. We build feral animal management programs tailored to the unique needs of the client, location, target species and seasonality.

Our programs are underpinned by quality data collection and scientific analysis and evaluation. The data is collected in our baseline field assessments using scientific survey and monitoring methods such as aerial/ground surveying, ageing data and sighting rates, DNA and tissue sampling, and radio/satellite tracking techniques.

Our best practice management techniques are always carried out within the Model Code of Practice for Humane Control of Feral Animals, associated Standard Operating Procedures and relevant legislation.