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may affect livestock. These diseases may also affect humans and secondary impacts from feral pigs, such as water quality in supply catchments, can also cause human health issues. While these are not the focus of this threat abatement plan, educating people about these issues can lend support to feral pig control for biodiversity outcomes.

Indigenous communities hold a range of values for feral pigs that are explored in some detail in the Background document.

Feral pigs can be highly mobile, taking advantage of changes in environmental conditions or changes in land management. The deliberate movement of feral pigs by people may also be a contributing factor to their dispersal and abundance. Members of the public should be encouraged to report new populations or significant changes in abundances of feral pigs to assist with control actions, and to come forth with evidence that may assist agencies take action against individuals who deliberately take feral pigs captive and release them elsewhere.

Action                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Priority/         Outcome                                                                                                                                                  Output                                                                                         Key Actioners
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Action 6.1: Develop and deliver a public education program about feral pigs and the environmental damage and problems they cause.                                                                                                                                                Low priority.     Greater public awareness of the environmental damage feral pigs cause, and the problems feral pigs cause to both the environment and primary producers.  Media monitoring shows an increase in stories/articles or awareness of the feral pig problem.  Australian, state and territory biosecurity agencies.
Raising public awareness of feral pigs is necessary. Where opportunities arise, such as in conjunction with feral pig management programs or as a component of a broader program raising awareness of invasive/feral animals generally, a public education campaign can be run.  Years 1–5.                                                                                                                                                                 AND/OR                                                                                         Specific control programs should deliver education in local areas as appropriate.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Public surveys on the environment indicate an awareness of the feral pig problem.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Public support is forthcoming for funding feral pig control programs.

Action 6.2:  Ensure deterrents are in place to discourage the translocation of feral pigs, and include this information in community education programs                                                                                                                          Medium priority.  Greater public awareness of biosecurity regulations related to feral pigs.                                                                               Public surveys on the environment indicate an awareness of regulation related to feral pigs.   Relevant state and territory authorities.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Years 1–5

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Public support is forthcoming to minimise the dispersal and abundance of feral pigs

3. Duration, cost and evaluation of the plan
This threat abatement plan provides guidance to identify priority areas and undertake actions targeted at these areas. Investment in many of the actions listed in this threat abatement plan will be determined by the level of resources that stakeholders commit to managing the problem.

Budgetary and other constraints may affect the achievement of the objectives of this threat abatement plan and, as knowledge changes, proposed