‘Savage enough to take on cattle’: pest animal numbers soar after rain | Catherine Naylor
When Neil Baker’s wife, Michelle, looked out the kitchen window at breakfast earlier this year, she spotted something unusual down towards the river flats on the family’s farm, in northern NSW.
Local Land Services, a government agency that helps landowners eradicate feral animals, said this year’s wet weather had led to a large increase in pest animal numbers. So far this year, the agency has culled 22,377 animals through aerial shooting operations, including more than 19,581 pigs. Last year, it culled 33,569 animals in total.
NSW Farmers said managing wild dogs cost farmers and government agencies about $50 million a year, and feral pigs cost the agricultural industry more than $100 million a year.
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