Black Snake Productions

Amazing crystal stalagmites and stalactites. The 'mites go up and the 'tites come down. When one has ants in one's pants, the mites go up and the tights come down. This area is known for its best fossil beds. In amongst the limestone caves reveals amazing megafauna, marsupials and rodent fossils.

Please help support or amazing wildlife carers!

Congratulations Bryce.
Absolutely deserved and very proud of you!

2023-24 Victorian Landcare Awards

The NextGen Landcare Award goes to Bryce Watts-Parker from the East Gippsland region. Congratulations Bryce!

We would also like to acknowledge:
Jackson Cass - Highly commended
Marney Durie - Commended
Lillian Maher - Commended

***Employee in the spotlight***
Emily has completed her Certificate 3 Wildlife and Exhibited animal care at Boxhill Institute. Em has dedicatiedly volunteered her time for 1.5 years and still continues.
Not only has she passed her course with flying colours her confidence has grown in bounds.
We are so proud of you Em and looking forward to see where this career path will take you.
Thank you for being part of our team!

We love visiting kindergartens & day care centres and introducing kids to animals they have never met before! It's so important to teach our next generation the value of our wildlife as they will only protect what they cherish.

Today we are excited to be visiting our friends at West Dale kinder in East Gippsland for the 14th year!

It might be cold now, but that's the best time to get yourself snake safe!
We offer Victoria's leading training programs for workplaces and sites to help keep yourself, co-workers and staff safe from snake bite. We teach the most up-to-date snake bite first aid and PPE to prevent an incident

To find out more about this exciting, important and memorable training contact us on [email protected]

We are so privileged to be welcomed as part of the celebrations for NAIDOC week 2024.

This year’s theme chosen by the National NAIDOC Committee, is Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud & Proud.

The theme honours the enduring strength and vitality of First Nations culture – with fire a symbol of connection to Country, to each other, and to the rich tapestry of traditions that define Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Well that was an amazing weekend ! 😄💝🤵👰‍♂️
Thank you to all our amazing friends and family for an incredible afternoon and evening.

Thanks to our friends at Black Snake Productions we will have a visit from some native wildlife next week at Redwood.

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The cutest duo ever!
Harriet having a snuggle with her critically endangered best friend Buster the Brushtail Bettong.

Something our state governments need to prioritise, these pests don't belong in our amazing wild places!

Still as true today as it was a few years back when amazing bug man and photographer .wild made this graphic.
Natives before feral species is not even something that should be debated.

Thanks again for having us Mildura Field Days

Where's Buster?

Buster is a very impressive brushtail bettong with the strongest hide and seek game.

His recent hide and seek spot in the dog toy basket is giving off ET vibes.

What a cute little dude!

Happy mothers day to all the incredible women out there ❤️

Ash, our beautiful Masked Owl is one of the animals you can meet in our extremely popular educational incursion, "Vanishing Species."

We have been doing more and more of this session lately. It's definitely a good sign that there is more schools showing a greater interest in the conservation of our flora and fauna for the future.

This week, we have taken our growling grass frogs, Mary River turtle, lace monitor, broad headed snake, bandicoot, woylie, fruit bat, spotted quoll, and of course ash with many other species as well joining the sessions.

A new talking point is our Wollemi pine and Betka bottle brush as two very endangered plant representatives!

To book this educationaland hands on program visit :
https://blacksnakeproductions.com.au/schools-kinder/

We are pretty happy to see the City of Greater Bendigo council put in place outdoor cat restrictions along with others such as Knox City Council and Yarra Ranges Council
It is responsible owners desexing cats and keeping them contained we support, but letting your cat outside is sadly just bad pet ownership and increasing the extinction crisis.

Australia is a lot quieter than it used to be.

Since their introduction in the late 18th century, feral and roaming pet cats have had a HUGE impact on of our native wildlife.

They’ve helped hunt 27 of our native species to extinction.

We’ll never get the chance to see the Broad-faced Potoroo, Desert Bettong or Paradise Parrot. They’re gone.

https://invasives.org.au/blog/meet-the-27-native-animals-cats-have-helped-send-extinct-since-colonisation/

What a better way to start the week than full days of Endangered species programs with my sweet Queenie.
I'm so privileged to work with such an amazing species and a quoll that loves cuddles!

Thank you East Gippsland Catchment Management Authority for allowing us to be on one of your water ways tours. Incredibly informative with lots of wildlife to be seen. Follow their pages for more free community engagement programs they have to offer.

Our Gippsland Water Dragons loving the sun here at the Wild Harvest Seafood Festival in their Pop-up Chameleon.

We are at the fantastic Wild Harvest Seafood Festival withEast Gippsland Catchment Management Authority.
Snake safety talks 10:30am and 1pm today.
Showcasing endemic species to Mallacoota in our wildlife display.

Please don't ever do this
We've had to remove snakes from hospitals brought in!

Venomous snake brought into hospital in lunchbox prompts plea from doctors — 'please don't do this' Hospital staff came face-to-face with one of the world's most deadly snakes after a patient brought it to the emergency department in a snap-lock lunch container.

Some birthday party fun for all ages!
1 hr interactive presentation on Australian Wildlife what better way to help celebrate anyone's birthday.
Educational and fun.
To enquire about our wildlife or reptile birthday parties please email.
[email protected]

Today is National Bat Appreciation day!

We love bats at Black Snake Productions, we love sharing the importance of these incredible animals in the environment to everyone we meet.

These are intelligent, social, caring and beautiful native animals that are a keystone species to our forests.
Here's three ways to help fruit bats

1. Use wildlife safe fruit netting and not illegal netting that traps and kills native birds, reptiles and bats!

2. Plant native flowering and fruiting trees for our stunning wildlife, maybe even plant some fruiting trees just for wildlife!

3. Support wildlife carers, there's so many amazing people helping our wildlife such as Moonshadow Flying Fox Rescue & Rehabilitation Centre and Bungalook Creek Wildlife Shelter to name a just a couple.