Imported, exotic, not native .. Burmese pythons are over running Florida swamps.
These massive snakes, which can grow to 20 feet long or more, with telephone-pole-sized girths, have all but decimated the region’s small- and medium-sized mammal population, wreaking havoc with the area’s ecosystem.
-2- The Canadian, exotic, not native wolves introduced ( by Ed Bangs & pals ) to Yellowstone - quickly expanded into Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and .. have decimating the elk, moose, and deer... achieving similar end results. ( not only livestock).
Soon: to do the same in Colorado and elsewhere.
Yes : that is insane...but profitable for government beaurocrats and their Sierra Club, ALF, ELF.. lawyers who grab large fees in their sue & settle scams.
At least in Florida they are trying to mediate the damage done by the pythons and other imported pet snakes that were turned loose to breed-by turning a bunch of them into boots and handbags and fining anyone who turns one loose and gets caught into oblivion...
I’m sure there are American gray wolves available for re-introduction programs-they are the species that was there in the 1st place-but I suppose that would make too much sense...