Snakes are not in a position to withdraw once caught in things like wire fencing. They will become trapped as in this case where a Yellow faced Whip snake was lucky to be spotted just after becoming trapped. Rick rescued this snake and released it unharmed. Had this snake been trapped for prolonged time, things may not have turned out so well for the snake.

Please remove any unused wire, orchard netting or similar, as many native animals suffer a slow death if trapped.

It is not just snakes that get trapped in netting and wire, animals such a Flying Foxes, Gliders, birds, wallabies, lizards all fall prey to these perceived safe human barriers.