More than 17,000 of the invasive pythons have been removed from Florida’s wilderness since 2000.
Bill Kearney | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
She and her wildlife photographer friends circled the snake at a safe distance, taking video and photographs that ended up on social media. Burmese pythons, which are indigenous to southeast Asia, are thought to have come to Florida’s ecosystems via the exotic pet trade. According to the National Park Service, the first record of a python in the park is from Oct. 24, 1979.
The U.S. Geological Survey says there are “tens of thousands” of the snakes holed up in Florida, with some estimates as high as 300,000. Females can lay as many as 100 eggs per clutch. The state says that more than 17,000 of the invasive animals have been removed from the wild since 2000, but there’s currently no large-scale method to successfully remove pythons from Florida’s wilderness.
“That thing was begging to be run over,” someone wrote. “You could have pinned it under your tire and waited for reinforcements!!!” A spokesperson for the national park explained that hunting is illegal in the park, and the only people who are allowed to kill pythons within the boundary are staff and licensed python removal contractors. The rationale behind the regulation is that the public might mistake native species for smaller pythons, and kill them inadvertently.
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