Like new Zealand the thing missing here is venison pies in a red wine sauce.

What do you expect given that hunters have been demonised to the point that there are not enough left to keep the feral animal populations under control.

My parents now have wild deer regularly on their property on the edge of Launceston. The problem is, hunters were given strict quotas to allow deer population growth when they were introduced. That still applies, even though the feral numbers are exploding and the number of hunters has dropped off a lot in recent decades.

The Feral Pig problem is very very bad in QLD around the Macadamia orchards in particular, trapping works initially but they work it out pretty quickly.

The notion these creatures are sweet and harmless, built up by countless hollywood movies has to be addressed by raw damage images so we can come to the realisation they have to be removed. Great production on this segment ABC.

Just let hunters in. And change laws so the meat can be processed

@bennichols1113

7 ай бұрын

That would ruin their industry of being pathetic complainers about problems they won't address.

@andrewturk6562

7 ай бұрын

Thats what they should do your right mate but will they do this

Pig Brig is very popular in the United States I am surprised it is not used in Australia as a pig trap the science behind it is amazing.

@FeralPestControl

7 ай бұрын

Agree. The Pig Brig design allows the trap to continue working even when pigs are caught and it does not have to monitored (remotely) and triggered to close, unlike the trap door approach shown here. So effective and working whilst you sleep 🙂

Foxes, hares, pigs and goats are huge feral issues (not to mention feral dogs & cats) in western NSW, trouble is, nothing gets done until the populations are way out of control and severe damage is caused. You do the right thing and report to LLS, NSW Parkes and local councils and sweet FA is done.🤔

@nicholaswirth1011

2 ай бұрын

At least DPI allow hunting in state forests Cant do that in QLD

You can't beat a bit of venison & you have it on tap.

Bravo!

A dear hunter named Roe !!!

@InTheDarknessWhereIDwell

2 ай бұрын

You thinking of Doe? Roe is fish eggs.

So the Deers make their way to the plate, but how are they disposing of the pigs?

Delicious.. we have just had organic free range venison for boxing day dinner

What do they do with the pigs once they trap them? Are they sold to someone else? Does it become a luau situation immediately after?

Tricks and traps It would be a good little project for Duntroon to observe i think In outsmarting a animal with an fair degree of intelligence in how it survives and what works, why it works how to improvise and integrate in way they can understand

Just have a look at the program in the USA way that millions of feral Hogs are trapped, - and the scale of damage is done to farmland and crops. So, let's start that here in Australia before the wild bores take over our farms.

Harvesting individual animals for select restaurants I can’t see impacting wild animal numbers. Given the flighty nature of Deer, it’s not like culling mobs of kangaroos. Most hunters will see the logic being illogical.

It is a good thing the Australians did not import grizzly bears, tigers and lions a 150 years ago.

@LaurenceDay-d2p

Ай бұрын

The tigers would have controlled the camel population.

Drones are your answer to solving the feral cats and foxes and deer, pig's. It's modifying the drones to identify, like facial recognition and night vision, heat sensors and the drones can eliminate the pest species.

This is nothing new. Trapping hogs has been done this way in the US for many years.

@markharris4421

7 ай бұрын

Its certainly not new in Australia either mate.

So you are harvesting. So you must be making money on this harvesting. What a life. You are ranching with out much work.

😂Lol, wrong if they live in %40 of Vic then it's Vic's problem. WOW all in the first 30seconds

Yep, too many deer in the UK, causing forest damage & road havoc. Another species that’s out of control.

Hunters wont try to elimate any ferals cause they wont have nothing to hunt in their area. I have known people to let pigs go in areas closer to where they live so they dont have to travel as far to hunt ...go figure.

Need the same initiative for feral horses in the Snowies.

Dingoes and livestock guardian donkeys for those dingoes. If the piglets are striped, it means they're native Papuan hogs, like those in the Wet Tropics.

animals are native to planet earth

Why does so much of ABCs content just seem like and ad for someones business.

The government makes money from the deer's, the farmer pays feeding them

Why did the government let deer in for hunting ...and then we say its an alarming rate at which they are spreading ? We had rabbits and foxes and cats ...so who doesnt know the risks of introducing a new animal ?

Money is money right,

ABC lol

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