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  • Even the Most Promising New Management Tools Struggle to Keep up with Invasive Wild Pigs

    • Feb 2, 2024

    • USDA. FS. Southern Research Station. CompassLive.

    • Whether called wild pigs, feral hogs, or wild boars, these opportunistic and invasive omnivores live in groups called sounders. Removing whole sounders is the most effective management method, but requires follow-up trapping and hunting due to their incredible reproductive potential.

  • Lionfish Invitational

    • DOC. NOAA. Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.

    • NOAA's Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) is partnering with Lionfish Invitational, and others to use trained divers to help conduct research and remove invasive lionfish within FGBMNS. This multi-day event is a science-based research expedition in which 11 dive teams work to remove as many lionfish as possible, while also recording helpful data on lionfish activity and sightings. In addition, a science team of 8 divers conducts surveys to determine what species, quantities and sizes of fish are present at each designated site before and after the removals. Applications are due Mar 1, 2024. The 2024 expeditions will take place on the following dates:

      • ​June 23-27, 2024
      • August 11-15, 2024
      • September 8-12, 2024

  • Manual, Mechanical, and Cultural Methods and Tools

    • 2011

    • USDA. Forest Service.

    • Chapter 20 (pages 232-244) in:  Invasive Plant Management Issues and Challenges in the United States: 2011 Overview; Westbrooks, R., et al.; ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2011.

       

  • Unleashing a New Tool to Stop an Unexpected Invader

    • Jul 7, 2017

    • USDA. Blog.

    • The National Feral Swine Damage Management Program, within the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s Wildlife Services (WS) program, has unleashed detector dogs as a new tool to help stop the spread of feral swine, one of the United States' most destructive and ravenous invasive creatures. This is a new tool, and WS will continue to train the dogs and use them to detect nutria, feral swine, and possibly other invasive species, in the future.