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Coastal Taipan Venom Milking

Venom Program

The Australian Reptile Park is world renown for its snake and spider venom milking program, which contributes to the production of lifesaving anti-venom.

Saving Lives Everyday

The Australian Reptile Park is the sole provider of raw venom to produce anti-venom for Australian terrestrial venomous snakes and the funnel web spider.

Acting as pioneers, the Australian Reptile Park played a vital role the development of life-saving snake and spider anti-venom.

Since then, over 25,000 lives have been saved thanks to the venom program.

Founder of the park, Eric Worrell, first started supplying tiger snake venom and coastal taipan venom to the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories in the early 1950's.

After he passed away, his friends John and Robyn Weigel expanded the program to include more terrestrial snake species and the infamous Sydney funnel-web spider.

Find out more information below.

Billy Collett King Brown Snake Venom Milking

Weigel Venom Centre

Where science, wildlife and visitor experience align.

Snake Venom Program

Saving Australian lives since the 1950s

Spider Venom Program

Australia's only supplier of Sydney funnel-web venom.
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Spider Drop Off

We accept public donations of Sydney funnel-web spiders and their egg sacs for our life-saving venom program
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Snake & Spider First Aid

If you have been bitten by a snake or spider, please follow apply first-aid techniques and go straight to hospital.
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Learn more in our Venom Diaries YouTube channel!

Go behind the scenes of our world-leading, life-saving venom program and witness the thrilling work that helps save lives every day. From deadly creatures to groundbreaking science, a brand-new episode drops every week — and no two are ever the same!

Watch Venom Diaries Here!