Burmese Pythons Squeeze South Florida
Last year the Nature Conservancy started an Eyes and Ears community patrol using people like utility workers, mail carriers and police to prevent the large snakes from taking up residence in the Florida Keys. Special training is given to the volunteer groups. Members of the public can assist their efforts by calling sightings into the hotlines, and should never approach a python if they see one nearby. Pythons do not usually attack or eat humans, but it has happened. In 2008 a volunteer zookeeper was killed by a 10 foot constrictor in a cage.
The python invasion must be curtailed, or they could establish themselves in the Florida Keys and devastate the already fragile wildlife populations. About eight large adult pythons have already been spotted in the Keys, but currently it is thought they are not yet breeding there. Another major concern is that the huge predators will move throughout the Southern states and start decimating other native wildlife.
Senator Bill Nelson, a Democrat from Florida lamented up the python situation:
“If we do not take action now, we will let python populations in Florida continue to grow and further ravage the already-fragile Everglades, as well as risk letting them spread throughout the southern portion of the United States”.
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Wow, looks pretty scary dude!
RT
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Declare open season on them, supposedly they make good eating.
Love the image’s quote.
This should remind us how utterly misguided our propensity to collect and especially “make pets” of animals from other areas is. Those involved in the exotic pet trade make a great deal of money and cause great harm, not only to the animal populations in which they trade but, as this article points out, to the ecosystems in the areas to which they are delivered!
man! which one is killing which though!??