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By Anthony Ham It is a scene that has played out countless times across the swamps and wetlands of northern Australia: A family of feral pigs goes down to the water’s edge to drink. Just when ...
An invasive species of feral pig could be helping to save Australia's native crocodiles. The saltwater crocodile has called Australia home for millions of years, but came close to extinction in ...
While it may be popular in overseas restaurants, you would be hard-pressed to find wild boar meat on many menus across Australia. The 2020 National Feral Pig Management report says there could ...
In Australia, feral pigs occupy about 40% of the mainland and offshore islands, with a total, yet highly uncertain, population estimated at around 13.5 million.
Across the vast Australian continent, feral pigs, feral deer and European rabbits roam in their millions. By different names—wild boar, venison, and lapin—these could all be served in a ...
Controlling feral pigs, building public toilets at roadside rest stops, and nurturing trout babies - someone has to pay for ...
From the South Bay to the East Bay, reports of sightings and damage from feral pigs are increasing. They're destroying yards ...
Katter’s Australia Party leader Robbie Katter said culling feral pigs should be done strategically and that everyone, from professional and amateur pig hunters to farmers, councils, governments ...
The feral pig arrived in Australia with the first European settlers in the late 18th century. One is Australia’s largest apex predator that came close to extinction in the early 1970s.