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 Action 5.1: Increase delivery of training courses and/or extension programs to build feral pig management skills amongst landholders and land managers  High priority.    Increased capability to manage feral pigs amongst landholders and land managers.                                                                                             Formal vocational training courses (e.g. Certificate III in Vertebrate Pest Management) available in all states and territories.                                                          TAFEs, universities, organisations delivering agricultural and natural resource management advice (e.g. Natural Resource Management, Local Land Services, state and territory government departments).
                                                                                                                                                         Years 1–5.                                                                                                                                                                                     Where records are available, the ongoing delivery of vertebrate pest management information or training at agricultural and town shows, field days and public meetings.                   Delivery of training takes place formally through courses or workshops and informally through agricultural and town shows, field days and public meetings.
Training courses / extension programs will acquaint participants with:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Ongoing access of feral pig training material available on the PestSmart Connect website (http://www.pestsmart.org.au/) (developed by the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre).
                                                                                                                                                                           More feral pig management undertaken by landholders and land managers.
    * 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 monitoring.

 Action 5.2: Increase understanding of social impediments to feral pig control.                                                                          Medium priority.  Feral pig management programs tailored to take account of social factors, including Indigenous social factors, while protecting threatened species/ ecological communities.  Guidance available to land managers undertaking control programs.                                                                                                                         Researchers in association with TAFEs, universities, organisations delivering agricultural and natural resource management advice.

                                                                                                                                                         Years 1–5.        Create opportunities for discussion and exchange of ideas and experience regarding feral pig control.

           Objective 6: Improve public awareness about feral pigs and the environmental damage and problems they cause.
Most Australians now live in urban or semi-urban areas. They generally do not see feral pigs and are rarely confronted by the damage and problems they cause. Consequently, most Australians lack awareness of the feral pig problem, and may have no concept of the need for feral pig control. It is important to improve public awareness about feral pigs and the environmental damage and problems they cause, and the need for effective feral pig control programs, to ensure there is lasting public support for management and research. This includes emphasising the limited effectiveness of uncoordinated recreational hunting on long-term, broad-scale feral pig control.

Feral pigs also impact on primary production through predation on livestock, damage to crops and through harbouring diseases that 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