Nick wades into flooded, cockroach-infested room to rescue mamba

Nick wades into flooded, cockroach-infested room to rescue mamba

A day after a wild and stormy evening of torrential rainfall, which caused flooding and severe damage to some areas in the Greater Durban area, Nick Evans was called to a container storage yard near Albert Luthuli Hospital. 

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A large snake had just crawled into a flooded office.

“A flooded office? That's not a place I've caught a snake before!” says Nick.

“And it was not just a case of the floor being wet, or even ankle-high water levels. Or clean water, I might add,” added Nick.

Here, the mamba was the least of his worries!

Listen to hear how Nick handled this situation, and if he managed to rescue the snake.

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Listen to the aduio here: 

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Nick's organisation, KwaZulu-Natal Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, is a chapter of The Lawrence Anthony Earth Organisation.

Contact Nick on 072 809 5806 for snake removals. Email him if you'd like to find out about his educational talks. 

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