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09-Oct-07, 08:11 PM
|  | steve Subscriber | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: gold coast Gender:  | | | | All snakes in australia are protected by the epa enviromental protection agency. they can prosecute for the harm of protected species. you would have to have a very good reason being life threatening to plead not guilty. Im not sure what the fines are but if found guilty it could be any where from thousands even jail sentence,depending on the offence. If you ever come accross a snake in your back yard or property you must call a licence snake catcher or even ring the epa and they will find some one to remove it for you and relocate it back to its natural habitat. unless you can identify the snake and are licenced to remove one i wouldnt put your self in danger or even worse put your family in danger with a deadly one being mistaken for a non venomous one. I hope that answers your question. Also its very common people killing snakes as there lack of education, snakes are a dying species and sad to say maybe in years time there wont be very many left in the wild. Also i hate the fact that some one would go out of there way to the front of there house to kill one. its pretty gutless in my opinion
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09-Oct-07, 08:13 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Newy Age: 23 | | | | yea i gave them my 2 cents worth. thanks for the info everyone
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09-Oct-07, 08:38 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: moorabool shire. vic Gender: | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by dansfish4tea  this is dans better half, just need a wuick answer which i cant find anywhere, is it actually illegal to kill a wild snake? friends just killed a snake because it was in their front yard and they asked what the laws are on that? and i am not sure | Hi, Dansfish,
I am a licensed snake catcher in Victoria.
Yes it is illegal to kill any snake as they are all protected.
As a snake catcher we are allowed to kill snakes but only as a last resort example if they have been terminally injured by dogs, cats, lawnmowers, whippersnippers, ranover or some hero with a shovel.
Unfortunately there is a loophole people use.
All they have to say is it was a threat to to their family and they generally get away with that as it is to hard for the D S E or N P&W or wildlife depts to prove any different .
Really the only way you can get any one charged is to actually ctch them in the act& then it would very time consuming and then it would be your word against theirs.
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09-Oct-07, 08:43 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by elapid@ snakes are a dying species and sad to say maybe in years time there wont be very many left in the wild. | can you provide some details on this? to my knowledge there are only a handful of threatened snake species and it has very little to do with them being directly killed by idiots as far as i know. |
09-Oct-07, 09:38 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: kellyville,sydney Age/Gender: 34 | | | dob in these toothless redneck losers
heres wat the snake whakers usually look like  |
09-Oct-07, 09:46 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Brisbane, Toowong Age/Gender: 20 | | | | Dob them in all you want, but nothing will come of it.. |
10-Oct-07, 06:59 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Newy Age: 23 | | | | i just wanted to see if it was illegal ornot, i figured it was but have never actually read a law on it, and i know they were going to straight away ask where is my proof.
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