I don't like snakes and I've had more then enough of them this past summer. I don't even like talking about snakes for the record. This article brought to my attention the enormous task Florida's wildlife department has to find these pythons which are not native of Florida and the history of how they got there.

Florida's War With Invasive Pythons Has a New Twist.

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Florida has a twisted relationship with the Burmese python. Americans imported nearly 100,000 of them from Southeast Asia between 1996 and 2006. (The US banned their import in 2012.) Many petowners hadn’t realized that the snakes grow to 12 feet, on average,and they abandoned them. South Florida’s warm wetlands offer the perfect adoptive habitat. Their inconspicuous patterning conceals them in the already remote Everglades, which makes them hard to track.
Ecologists peg their detectability at less than 1 percent. That means if there are 100 snakes in your survey area, you’d be lucky to spot just one.


Florida's wildlife department has to remove these python's because they are destroying the ecosystem of the native mammals of southern Florida. There has been an all out recovery plan to help balance this delicate ecosystem back. I love animals and this may be difficult to read, however, it's good knowing that there are people looking out for the animals that have been thriving naturally in the Florida Everglades and the program to bring back that balance for those animals.

To my surprise after learning a bit of history about why python's are not a natural animal of South, Florida Everglades, I found out that Florida does a contest for the largest python found. For the record, I care deeply about animals and it's difficult to discuss anything related to hunting. I believe in this instance, the good being done to save animals and their habitats far out weighs the removal of these pythons that do not belong in the Everglades. When you lose 90% of the natural animals of the Everglades then the wildlife department of Florida really doesn't have a choice. I wish though, the Florida wildlife department could have intervened more before so many small animals were lost.



Teen Wrangles 15 foot 100 pound python in the Florida Everglades.

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