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government; regional groups such as Natural Resource Management groups, Landcare groups; state land service agencies (e.g. Local Land Services (NSW)); and local groups such as "Friends of..." groups are encouraged to integrate feral pig management into land management activities.

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Action 2.1: Encourage the integration of feral pig management into land management activities at all levels of government, and regional groups.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   High priority.  More consistent and effective feral pig management occurs across Australia at all levels of government, and in regional groups.                                                                              Reduction in environmental damage by feral pigs.                                 Land managers.
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For more consistent and effective feral pig management across Australia, all government departments and agencies with land management responsibilities should aim to integrate feral pig management into their land management activities (e.g. weed control, threatened species surveying/recovery work, fuel reduction, etc.) and planning. Similarly, regional groups such as Natural Resource Management groups, Landcare groups and Local Land Services should aim to integrate feral pig management into their land management activities.  Years 1–5.      Inclusion of actions to mitigate the impacts of feral pigs on key species, ecological communities and ecosystems into land or property plans, for areas where feral pigs have been identified as a problem.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               A reduction in feral pig populations as a proxy for reduced environment damage.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Increased participation of groups and individuals in feral pig management.
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           Objective 3: Encourage further scientific research into feral pig impacts on nationally threatened species and ecological communities, and feral pig ecology and control.
Further experimental research is needed to quantify the environmental impacts of feral pigs, particularly their impacts on threatened species and ecological communities. Specifically:

      * the relationship between the number of pigs and the level of impact (within specific areas and ecosystems) needs to be quantified where possible, to help land managers decide how much control effort is needed

      * the impacts of feral pigs in environments where they are abundant including temperate inland river/wetland complexes. It is noted some research has been conducted already in the Wet Tropics and sub-alpine peat bogs

      * understanding the landscape factors, and interactions between these landscape factors, that drive feral pigs' ecology and their interactions/impacts with the environment. This includes understanding how feral pigs use a variety of habitats or microhabitats in a landscape, and research into their transient movements following wet seasons or inland water flows (e.g. Channel Country), and

      * the development of indicators for how and when to undertake feral pig control work for a particular region or ecosystem. These indicators need to include triggers related to space and time, and may be developed as part of the research described above.

Importantly, further research should be undertaken into the effectiveness of