Video: Snake handler has caught twice as many snakes this season. He explains why
Dry weather and habitat loss in the Western Cape are possibly making human encounters with these beautiful creatures more common
Snake handler André du Preez has removed twice as many snakes than he did last season. He believes that because of the relatively dry winter in the Western Cape, snakes are increasingly looking for food where people live.
Du Preez helps people when they encounter snakes in their homes or work. He removes the snakes and releases them back into nature.
We also spoke to herpetologist Tyrone Ping, who said that increases in snake catches could also be because of habitat encroachment. He said that snake catches can often be blown out of proportion when shared on social media.
Next: R27-million from Lottery but six years later rehab still not operational
Previous: Tembisa Hospital CEO and senior officials must face disciplinary action, tribunal rules
© 2022 GroundUp. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
You may republish this article, so long as you credit the authors and GroundUp, and do not change the text. Please include a link back to the original article.
We put an invisible pixel in the article so that we can count traffic to republishers. All analytics tools are solely on our servers. We do not give our logs to any third party. Logs are deleted after two weeks. We do not use any IP address identifying information except to count regional traffic. We are solely interested in counting hits, not tracking users. If you republish, please do not delete the invisible pixel.