Why are the alligators protected and not hunted?
Because that will make them extinct. Alligators do not invade our homes. We should not invade their home, the water pond. Alligators have been on this earth since the dinosaur era, many millions of years before humans appeared. It is a dirty shame so many wild species have been made extinct or near extinct by humans.
Gators are hunted. Don’t know about FL, but there is definitely hunting in TX, LA, and MS.
Alligators are hunted in Florida.
You can hunt them in pretty much any public body of water.
Decades ago they were an endangered species, but hunting has been allowed for almost 30 years now.