Established in 2010, Sydney Snake Catcher is the original and longest-running professional snake removal service in Australia. We provide trusted coverage across Sydney, the Central Coast, the Illawarra, the Blue Mountains, and other high-snake-population areas throughout New South Wales.
In 2024, Chris Williams and Rob Ambrose — two highly experienced snake catchers with a combined 80 years in the field — took over the running of Sydney Snake Catcher. Under their leadership, the business has grown into the most extensive and reliable reptile removal service in the state.
They are supported by a skilled team of part-time professionals employed at leading institutions such as the Australian Reptile Park and Taronga Zoo, as well as specialist reptile carers with WIRES and Sydney Wildlife. This unique blend of experience and expertise allows us to deliver the highest standards of service. Beyond our core team, we also work closely with a large network of trained snake catchers across NSW, ensuring rapid response times and consistent professional standards.
We are proud of the trust placed in us by thousands of households, businesses, schools, and councils. To our ever-growing customer base, we sincerely thank you for your support. Your commitment to protecting Australia’s native reptiles allows us to continue our work and strengthen our community ties.
A man with a beard holding a snake hook, standing in coastal bushland near La Perouse.
Sydney’s Longest-Running Professional Snake Catcher
For more than a decade, Rob Ambrose has been one of Sydney’s most familiar and trusted reptile specialists. Since beginning his full-time snake-catching career in 2010, Rob has safely removed tens of thousands of snakes across the Greater Sydney region, earning a reputation for calm handling, reliability and deep field expertise.
As Senior Catcher for Sydney Snake Catcher, Rob is often the face people recognise — the person they’ve seen on the news, at community events or demonstrating safe reptile handling at La Perouse. He is widely regarded as one of the most experienced and steady-handed snake catchers working in urban Australia today.
Before joining Sydney Snake Catcher, Rob worked at Western Sydney University supporting fieldwork, research and environmental programs. This grounding in science and education continues to shape the way he communicates with the public, helping people understand why snakes appear in built-up areas and how to coexist with Sydney’s native wildlife.
Rob is also the current presenter at the historic La Perouse Snake Show, one of Australia’s longest-running wildlife demonstrations. For more than a century the show has been part of Sydney’s natural history, and Rob continues that tradition by delivering engaging, conservation-focused presentations to thousands of visitors each year.
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Rob’s decade-long contribution to Sydney Snake Catcher has shaped industry standards and ensured safe outcomes for both people and wildlife.
Rob attends call-outs across homes, construction sites, government properties, schools and commercial premises — safely removing everything from Red-bellied Black Snakes and Eastern Browns to Diamond Pythons and Golden Crown Snakes.
Reliable, experienced and highly respected, Rob Ambrose is one of Sydney’s leading urban reptile specialists.
Chris Williams has spent more than 35 years working with Australia’s most iconic and dangerous reptiles. As founder of Urban Snake & Reptile Removal, he provides fast, safe and highly professional snake removal across Sydney, backed by decades of field experience and scientific knowledge.
Chris is widely regarded as one of Sydney’s leading authorities on urban reptiles — the snakes, lizards, geckos and turtles that now live alongside us as the city expands. His work focuses on how development shapes wildlife populations and how people can safely coexist with the species that turn up in homes, schools, workplaces and construction sites.
Chris began working with reptiles in 1990 as a WIRES reptile-handling instructor before joining Taronga Zoo’s reptile department, where he worked with cobras, rattlesnakes and Australian elapids, and contributed to conservation programs for threatened species.
He later worked at the Australian Reptile Park and Reptiles Alive!, delivering reptile-education programs across NSW. Since 2014 he has served as President of the Australian Herpetological Society, leading the state’s oldest reptile-focused organisation.
Chris is also the author or co-author of several major reptile books, including Urban Reptiles, Reptiles of the Red Centre and Reptiles of the Greater Sydney Region. These publications have helped cement his position as Sydney’s most knowledgeable urban reptile specialist.
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