Is This Enough Money For You To Hunt Pythons?
The annual Florida Python challenge is back in Florida. Is this enough money for you to hunt pythons?
If that is your thing…this is the time to do it! There are cash prizes that range from $1,500 to the longest snake up to $2,500 for the person who kills the most. To me, that is not enough money.
Now, why do we want to kill all these snakes? Well…we have way to many of them in Florida and they are a threat to native wildlife.
Most of the pythons were pets that either escaped or were released there. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are putting money into the Everglades to try and restore it. In order to do this, they have to make sure that non-native animals are not living and reproducing in the Everglades. The pythons are destroying the natural food chain in Florida.
How many pythons are living in and around the Everglades? According to the FWC, they say there could be tens of thousands of Burmese pythons.
Back in June, the biggest python was captured, 18-feet long and it weighed 215 pounds and there were over 100 eggs inside of her.
The FWC says that you can kill pythons at anytime, however, they do this big event to try and control the population. Hundreds of hunters spend time in the Everglades this week, cleaning out the population.
Since 2000, they have removed more then 16,000 pythons. The challenge lasts for 10 days. If you are not experienced in python hunting, the FWC will train you at no cost and help you practice safe python capturing.
You can read more HERE
There isn’t an amount of money that would convince me to hang out in the Florida Everglades at night looking for giant snakes. I couldn’t even deal with the two snakes that I had on my patio a few months back.
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