Feral Pig Rooting
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Feral pig rooting is the most reliable indicator of feral pig presence.
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Feral pigs dig up below-ground foods such as plant roots or tubers, insects, frogs, molluscs and crustaceans.
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Some rooting excavations can be up to half a metre deep.
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Rooting is enormously destructive to the natural environment and agricultural land.
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Rooting accelerates erosion and causes slope failure.
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A small number of feral pigs can dig up large areas of ground in a single night.
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Rooting, wallowing and defecation in or adjacent to waterway and estuary systems, can cause severe sedimentation, silt-loading and degrades water quality. Such activities cause algae blooms, oxygen depletion, fish kills, reductions in macro-invertebrate communities and an increase in aquatic microbial pathogens. Feral pig rooting behaviours around dams can foul or sour drinking water for livestock and agricultural feedwater.
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Report feral pig sightings using the online FeralScan App.
