Myself, Jenny and Ziggy have visited various locations in and around Bunbury, Denmark, Nannup, Balingup, Mundaring, Kalamunda, North Beach, Wungong and more.

Warmly welcomed everywhere and supported and encouraged by vets and wineries (a tough gig), land owners, cockies and even lawyers...

We're finding the demand huge but another day, another gig so to speak, so do contact us is you need 'the band' to deliver training where you live.

However this new type is particularly cunning with its legs pulled in tight and an elongated abdomen it closely resembles a leaf. Taking its cunning disguise one step further, on one side it looks like a fresh green leaf but turned around it looks like an older decaying leaf.

The crafty arachnid, a kind of orb-weaving spider, appears to dress its web with leaves and whether fresh or aging can turn itself around to blend in and remain hidden from view.

Dr Kunter of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences discovered the spider in China's Yunnan province. It was particularly hard to spot and had eluded scientists until his keen eyes took a closer look at the 'leaves' stuck to the web.

www.vicfallswildlifetrust.org/index.html for more.

Thanks to Roger Parry for taking time to show us around and to Ketch for the introduction.

For example human-wildlife conflict is a major problem for those communities that border wildlife areas. One of their programs employs locals to help protect local villages livestock such as cattle and goats from imminent attack by lions.

The community volunteers are trained, paid and each given a bicycle. When they get a text message that a lion may be close, they cycle around to alert the local farmers and help move the livestock out of harms way. In turn this protects the lions from being hunted and killed by the locals, for affecting their livelihoods by eating livestock. Win win as they say. A simple enough idea, that requires a relatively small amount of money to be operational and effective.

"Judge" the white backed vulture is one of the wildlife ambassadors. He eats offal and loves nothing more than stripping rubber trims from cars and windscreen wipers. Probably the same texture as guts and entrails - yum! Vulture populations are being decimated in Africa due to the increased use by commercial poachers of poisons and urban development. Judge meets, greets and spreads the conservation word.

There was no hope to train him to live wild, apparently cheetah require maternal care for the first 22 months of their life to survive in the wild. So Sylvester has become a semi tame educational animal, helping to raise funds, including for his own upkeep, and awareness through 'walk with a cheetah' and visits to game lodges just up the road from Victoria Falls.

This huge and hefty collar has a 20kg counter weight just to keep the satellite-tracking device on top. To a rhino 20kg is like you and I lifting a feather – they just don't feel it apparently!

In some Zimbabwe parks to deter poachers the rhinos are painted with a number for aerial ID and their horns removed every 3 years.

During daylight hours many are accompanied by their own armed guards. One such guard waved our car down and took us on a private rhino walk to see these awesome (but de-horned) creatures in the wild near World's View in Matopo National Park.

After a hot 20 minute long walk through African tall grasses we finally saw our rhinos, a mum with a calf. After a while they got a bit agitated with us so we all separately eyed up the only tree in which to escape a charge by climbing.

As one guide told us previously "you only have to run faster than one person" if chased by a lion, elephant or rhino!

Includes free carriage to WA destinations.

So, including GST:

• Snake Catching Bag - now ex carriage costs $132 (rrp $165)
• Snake Handling Solo Kit - now ex carriage costs $444 (rrp $555)
• Snake Handling Team Kit - now ex carriage costs $612 (rrp $765)
• Fauna Handling Team Kit - now ex carriage costs $959.20 (rrp $1,199)
• All gaiters both tan and camo, regular or large sizes - free carriage in WA cost $103.99 (rrp $130).

Offer ends 31 December 2016.

However, Collie's snake necked turtles may be spotted in permanent fresh waterways and even crossing roads in search of more permanent water as some lakes and swamps dry out. They are still common in Perth and are found widely around the south west of WA. They will travel some distance to find suitable nesting sites in which to lay eggs. They never look comfortable on land and lumber about swaying a bit from side to side with their long necks outstretched. In water they are agile, fast and highly effective predators, using the long neck to shoot out and reach prey through water plants without the bulky shell getting in the way. Adult turtles can weigh over 2kg and live up to 80 years.

With a shell length of up to 40cm this is an impressive turtle by any standards. They are predators and hunt and eat aquatic invertebrates, snails, tadpoles, fish, frogs and birds such as ducklings, but also preying surprisingly larger water birds as well.

A female digs a hole and buries up to 25 eggs that hatch many months later as their incubation period may be over 200 days long. The juveniles are tiny, hatching out about the size of 10cent coins and may weigh as little as 5 grams. The tiny turtles consume small aquatic insects like mosquito larvae, up to 70 a day, studies have shown. Let's hope our suburban wetlands can continue to support populations of these mozzie munching reptiles. Protection from feral animals such as cats and foxes is very important. Pollution from run off can also have a dramatic impact on their aquatic habitat. They are available as pets in WA but do require considerable space to thrive in captivity.