Agricultural
8 July, 2025
Local pig trapping success
A Clifton Landcare member with a small lifestyle bush block has trapped 70 feral pigs in the last two months using one of Clifton Landcare’s two pig traps which are available for members to use.
Clifton Landcare said the traps are monitored by cameras and activated manually from a landholder’s phone when they observe the whole herd of pigs entering the trap.
This allows landholders to catch pigs that are wary of entering swing gate traps.
Landholder Landcare members supply batteries and a sim card the camera.
Clifton Landcare can help and advise with positioning, trap set up and humane destruction of trapped pigs if required.
Pig traps are on trailers for transport.
Landcare supports the control of feral pigs to protect the environment, farming activities and to contain the spread and transmission of diseases like brucellosis to people and animals.
The next Landcare meeting is at the Clifton Library at 7pm on the 21st of July.
For more information contact Clifton Landcare on 0429 934 540.
