A small live snake has been found at the home of a Christchurch traveller who had just returned home from Bali.<\/p>\n
Biosecurity New Zealand sent trained handlers to the property after a report that a snake had been found in a suitcase.<\/p>\n
Biosecurity surveillance and incursion manager Wendy McDonald said the snake was found wrapped around the toe of a jandal.<\/p>\n
“Each year, we detect one or two snakes at post-border locations, with more typically intercepted at the border,” she said.<\/p>\n
“These are usually non-venomous and often arrive dead due to cargo treatment.”<\/p>\n
Biosecurity NZ believed it was a wolf snake, which was a type of non-venomous boa.<\/p>\n
The snake will be euthanised.<\/p>\n
McDonald said Biosecurity NZ responded to alerts as quickly as possible, including dispatching trained handlers to detection sites.<\/p>\n
“Our handlers undergo intensive training, including specialist instruction in Australia where they work with live snakes under expert supervision. This training is refreshed every two years,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small live snake has been found at the home of a Christchurch traveller who had just returned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-104038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}