Experience built through real Sydney call-outs
Harley has worked with snakes and other reptiles across homes, businesses, strata properties, workplaces, hotels, public facing sites and difficult-access locations. Each job requires a practical assessment of the species, behaviour, surroundings and people or animals nearby.
His field work includes removing a diamond python high in a Roseville tree, travelling by boat to a Hawkesbury River island, attending a common tree snake at Sydney’s InterContinental, helping with a sea snake at a Sydney beach and responding to a variety of residential and commercial sightings.
Formal training and licensing
Harley has undertaken formal reptile-handling training since 2015 and operates under NSW General Licence MWL000102655. Professional work focuses on scene control, appropriate equipment, lawful capture and humane relocation.
What Harley brings to a call-out
- More than a decade of practical reptile-handling experience
- Residential, commercial, strata and workplace attendance
- Calm communication during stressful sightings
- Safe capture, containment and humane relocation
- Realistic advice when an animal cannot be located
Experience that can be independently checked
Harley’s work and safety advice have appeared in community and national media. Visitors can read the original published reports alongside Harley’s field stories.
Featured by ABC Sydney
In a report published on 27 September 2023, ABC Sydney interviewed Harley Jones of Snakes in the City about Sydney snake activity and the challenges of finding suitable release sites. The article includes Harley’s account of local call-outs and a red-bellied black snake photograph credited to him.
Read ABC Sydney’s report on snake activity and relocation.
Profiled by Willoughby Living
Willoughby Living’s profile, published on 20 May 2021, explores Harley’s background, his work with Snakes in the City and memorable Sydney call-outs. Read the Willoughby Living profile of Harley Jones.
Professional snake removal across Greater Sydney
If a snake has appeared at a home, business, strata complex, school, childcare centre, acreage property or workplace, keep people and pets away and call Snakes in the City on 0411 103 488.
