I’m not sure I understand the concept of not hunting them. Seems to me that we need to shoot a lot more of them.
These are not dumb animals! They are smart, cunning, and learn very quickly! So you simply don’t walk the woods to shoot one. Thus, it is very difficult to thin out the population by shooting. Even poison can be learned and avoided by the hogs. If we could put the hogs with the pythons, the hogs would eradicate the snakes very quickly.