As part of their work with landholders to build their capacity, knowledge and adoption of biosecurity and sustainable agricultural practices, Western Local Land Services has funded fencing for landholders to exclude feral pests.
Following a competitive expression of interest process, nine landholder projects were selected to receive NSW government funding to install targeted fencing and coordinated pest animal control. Landholders also received support to prepare for, and reduce, emergency animal disease outbreaks.
A total of 350km of the 376 km of exclusion fencing has been erected, with 331,170 hectares of property to be enclosed at completion of the project.
As they turn to the next task – feral pig control – landholders are already reporting improvements to their primary production, biosecurity and on-farm biodiversity from the fencing.
Read the Western newsletter and Fencing biosecure production zones project page.
