Surprised they haven't caught a gator yet digesting a collar.
I wonder if the collars couldn’t be designed to activate when they come into contact with the snake’s digestive juices?
I don’t know where the $30K came from, but I welcome ANY effort to eradicate this species. I get the feeling that the average US citizen has no clue as to the severity of the problem in the Everglades.
This is WAY above my concern for the Ukraine. WAY above. I wonder what sort of plan they could come up with for a few billion Mitch dollars.
Regardless, more needs to be done. It’s not going to snow in Miami anytime soon (which would take care of most of them).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdI4kmvVqfc
Another reason...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdI4kmvVqfc
Another reason...
Put a decent bounty on them. Raise it substantially as it gets harder to find them. With motivation man can wipe out damn near anything.
That’s because the opossums can’t carry cell phones.
Place a bounty on every python caught. The only ones getting paid are contracted members of the PATRIC Program and winners during the Florida Python Challenge.
https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/nonnatives/python/removing/
Have a few more python hunting contests like this one.
https://myfwc.com/news/all-news/python-challenge-1022/
Iguanas are an invasive species to Florida and there is a bounty of eight dollars per iguana.
https://biobubblepets.com/the-fwcs-iguana-removal-service-helping-to-control-the-invasive-species-population-in-florida/
Here’s an iguana hunter in southern FL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCNIJLU6qwY&ab_channel=RajTheIGUANAMAN
Here’s a woman who hunts them, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64_o5f8wIFQ&ab_channel=IguanaSolutions
I think a better way I saw recently was attaching a GPS device to male pythons and releasing them, which instinctively they search out female pythons in large numbers and killing the females whenever possible because one female can produce dozens of eggs and replicate quickly
At least they aren’t using AIM-9 missiles.
Seems like it would be easier to raise rabbits.
Easier to put the collars on.
No trapping required.
How many times is that GPS going to be inside alligators or crocodiles?
Once again, a problem caused by idiot people.
THey shoukd just up the ante and up the permits to hunt the snakes, and emphasize that they should not risk catching the snakes alive, but should shoot from a safe distance.
While its pretty profitable to hunt them dead or alive now, a ,ot more people would be on board if it was more profitable. The snake issue (and other invasive species issue like large monitor lizards and such) is a huge issue that could be far better handled, but apparently the powers that be aren’t serious about eradicating a species that is devastating the ecosystem down there.
This is the type nonsense Democrats produce.
$1K just for the collar plus multiple thousands more dollars in personnel, equipment, vehicle, etc costs to kill one python.
Anything but open the areas to year round python hunting because doing so would admit a benefit from private gun ownership.
Would be nice if there was a breed of Dog that hunted snakes.
Sounds like detection is a problem.
Just sayin'...
If they’re invasive, illegal and displace native wildlife, I’m pretty sure they qualify for amnesty under current Biden border rules. I’m not sure what Florida is allowed to do about them. Maybe send them to New York?
There's things other than snakes what eat possum:
How do they taste, pan fried?
The headline reads like the pythons are using GPS data to nab the opossums.
