There is a simple natural permanent solution for this problem, just introduce an Apex predator - the majestic Jaguar.
Jaguars used to inhabit the southern parts of North America - they seldom attack humans but they will happily eat snakes and alligators. They could restore health to the ecosystem, also make it more interesting, thus also benefiting the tourist industry.
Does anyone have links to more companies selling these animals' skins?
Has anyone bought any of these and can share a review? Any other recent updates to what's going on in this market?<p><a href="https://pythonwildman.com/" rel="nofollow">https://pythonwildman.com/</a><p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20180830211800/https://floridapythoncollection.com/" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20180830211800/https://floridapyt...</a><p>---<p>Unfortunately, it looks like their carcasses are toxic. So food cycling them won't work.<p><a href="https://www.outsideonline.com/1794941/florida-officals-dont-eat-python-meat" rel="nofollow">https://www.outsideonline.com/1794941/florida-officals-dont-...</a><p>Anyone know how to cost-effectively bioremediate mercury laden materials?
Estimate of 100,000 pythons in the wild, perhaps starting
from an inadvertent release in 1992, and ...<p>> Pythons face few predators here. In the spring, each adult female lays up to 100 eggs. Once her female children reach the age of four, they too begin to breed.<p>How many pythons would need to be caught each year
to reduce the population to, say, less than 1,000?
I think this infestation may need a different approach.
To you that live in parts of the world that have snakes, do they affect you in any way?<p>There are no snakes where I live, and I'm extremely uncomfortable just thinking about the possibility of one entering your home or seeing one.<p>Imagine cleaning your garage and finding a snake curled up behind some stuff, the state of terror I would be in is out of this world.
Our family visited the Everglades a few years ago. This is indeed an epidemic to the natural habitat. In fact the guides said that anyone can come by and hunt Python. The biggest threat is to the birds in the area.
For it to be a epidemic issue, I'd be expecting two well trained hunters of pythons to catch more than they did "In the first eight days the snake-catching tribesmen removed 13 of the snakes" as not even two a day.<p>Anybody know the population numbers or the growth rate (the pythons that is) as I'm suspecting that kind of removal rate would only be useful in controlling small area's of land and have little/negligible effect upon the overall population.
Maybe these guys could learn something from these snake hunters from India:<p><a href="https://www.floridatoday.com/story/sports/2017/01/26/sargent-tribesmen-spearhead-python-removal/97079892/" rel="nofollow">https://www.floridatoday.com/story/sports/2017/01/26/sargent...</a>
They should also pass laws to make it a major crime to harbor these creatures. Eg. 5 years min for possession, 20+ for dealing. Probably won’t deter all the morons, but it will work on some.
So, finally learned what PEP stands for. It’s Python Elamination Program, which is <i>“not currently accepting new python removal agents”</i> (<a href="https://www.sfwmd.gov/our-work/python-program" rel="nofollow">https://www.sfwmd.gov/our-work/python-program</a>)<p>I’m mentioning that because that page has a few strong contenders for the “meaningless graph of the year” award. Did you know that the total length of pythons eliminated was over twice the maximum depth of the Grand Canyon or that their weight was less than that of two male African elephants?<p>So, if you take a male American elephants weight of pythons stupid enough to be hunted and place them head to tail, you can make a rope that allows you to abseil the Grand Canyon.