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Environment
Samantha Lock

Pig tsar crowned to fight feral hog crisis in NSW first

Increasing feral pig numbers are causing expensive damage to NSW farms and a cull is planned. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)

A freshly appointed NSW pig tsar will be tasked with cutting numbers of the porcine pests in three hotspots being ravaged by the feral animals.

The state's first "feral pig co-oordinator" will oversee a $13 million control program to tackle an explosion in feral pig numbers, which farmers say are at crisis levels.

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