Wildlife Animal Ethics Committee Approval

Working with Wildlife is proud to announce that the Department of Environment and Natural Resource's Wildlife Animal Ethics Committee has just granted us our licence (Number 272) to use animals whilst presenting our training courses!!!!

The significance of this achievement is that we have satisfied the committee that our training techniques and housing facilities take into account the care, safety, health and well being of our reptiles.

This is one aspect of our business that we have always been very conscious of - at all times the safety and well being of our trainees is paramount, but we are also very aware that our snakes need to be housed, transported, handled and rested appropriately at all times.

This is just another example of the level of professionalism you can be confident of receiving at a Working with Wildlife training course - not only will you receive what we believe is the best training available in this industry, but you can also be confident that our reptiles are always being well looked after.

Working with Wildlife USA Goes Live!!!!

We have just finished the Working with Wildlife USA website and updated the USA blog - check them out to learn about snakes and their behaviour in the USA.

Keep following these posts - we are working on a number of very exciting projects at the moment, so stay tuned for some VERY interesting developments on Working with Wildlife and our training courses!!!!

Introducing The New Business!!!!

For a number of years now we have been providing quality Snake Awareness and Snake Handling training via our old company - Balanced with Wildlife.

If you have a look at our old website you will notice that there have been a few internal changes and we would now like to introduce you to our new business Working with Wildlife.

As a customer you can be confident that little has changed, except for our name and our revamped website. Our contact numbers remain the same, you will still speak to the same team members you know through discussions over the past couple of years and you will receive the same quality training and information that you have come to expect from our business.

Check out the new website and contact us if you would like to know more - the same quality information is there as it always has been and there are also a few new surprises!!!!

Another Successful Working With Venomous Snakes Course

Balanced with Wildlife staff are back from another successful 3 day Working with Venomous Snakes course, this time for Rio Tinto in Tom Price, Western Australia.

The feedback from the course ranged from -

Brilliant, simply brilliant! Delivered by very professional trainers. This is the second course I have completed and by far the best. I was slightly apprehensive at the start but my fears were soon put to rest very quickly. The guys were brilliant, concise and friendly, very approachable and ran the course professionally. Thank you. Cheers.

to -

Graphics/slides could be bigger. Add basic catching tools into the price of the course. Overall very good. I learnt a heap. Very informative on identification and handling skills. Cheers!

We would like to thank all participants for their feedback - our trainers are currently reviewing our graphics/slides to see if they can be improved in any way and we have already been in contact with all participants and a large number of them have already ordered our catching kit packages.

Thanks go out to the staff at Rio Tinto Tom Price - our presenters commented on how well they were looked after whilst there and how receptive all participants were on the course.

Could This Have Been Prevented?

ANOTHER article about ANOTHER person who has died after being bitten by a snake in Nepal - it never ends.

On this occasion a 7 year old girl has lost her life.

This article highlights the need for appropriate snake bite first aid training to be made available to all people in Nepal - if what you read is accurate, the victim was unable to receive treatment on time because there were no doctors at the hospital.

Could appropriate first aid training have prevented this young death?

What A Horrible Read

Just reading this article from Nepal where an 18 month old child has died after being bitten by a snake while playing in his front yard.

These types of articles are almost impossible to imagine while we sit in the comfort of our homes watching our children play in our yards.

It makes you realise just how lucky we are.

Another Successful Snake Awareness Session

Balanced with Wildlife presented a 4 hour Snake Awareness Session to staff at the District Council of Mallala today and it was a resounding success!! Julian Craig was the presenter at the session and the feedback is already back on how good the presentation was.

One attendee writes -

"Riveting experience. Julian was the best and most interesting course instructor we have had in the last 10 years. The subject was very pertinent to our rural area with snakes an issue we have to deal with in our everyday lives. SENSATIONAL! Thank you"

Just to prove that we are being impartial, here is the "worst" comment we received (and there were over 20 feedback forms received) -

"Top course. Not boring and learnt a lot. Very interesting"!!!!

Well done Julian - if the comment above is the "worst" we ever get, then we have nothing to worry about!!

Just another example of the level of professionalism you receive when Balanced with Wildlife conducts a course for you - if there is a chance that your staff could ever come into contact with a snake in their workplace contact us and we will be happy to provide you with training or awareness sessions that are second to none.