Thermal imaging helping to cull KI feral pigs

An $880,000 grant will be taken from the Linking Landscapes fund to help with the cull, which is taking place across 145,000 hectares on the western side of the Island.

The project is one of nine funded across the state in this round of Linking Landscapes.

Nature Foundation chief executive officer Hugo Hopton was impressed by the amount of people wanting to help the environment on private land parcels through funded projects.

"It's really pleasing to have so many current and aspiring Heritage Agreement owners wanting to work together to amplify the impact of the grants and support our threatened native species by boosting habitat on their properties," he said.

Environment and Water Minister David Speirs said the projects would see "hundreds of thousands of hectares across SA restored" and threatened species better protected.

"Projects like these support the state government's back-to-basics approach for landscape and nature conservation management and deliver improved environmental and economic outcomes in partnership with private landholders," he said.

He said the government's partnership with private landholders and association with nature conservation not-for-profit organisations would result in practical outcomes that benefit the landscape.

"In SA, Heritage Agreements are a proven way to support private landowners to protect important bushland and achieve conservation outcomes that benefit the state and the landholders," he said.

"This new grants round will help both Heritage Agreement owners as well as non-Heritage Agreement owners to achieve large-scale conservation outcomes, create corridors and connectivity between areas of private conservation or to achieve conservation outcomes on large parcels of land."