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There was a programme where they got the Irula tribe (with help from the reptile man - Rom Whitaker[2]) from India to trap the pythons, which was touted to be a success as well[1]. Not sure what happened to it?

[1] https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article12... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_Whitaker

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Does not seem like it was remotely successful. From [1] - "Probably the most audacious effort came last year when two renowned snake catchers from India’s mountain-dwelling Irula tribe chanted their way across the Everglades for two months. They bagged 33 pythons. But that figure, like the 1,000-plus snakes killed to date in civilian hunting programmes, is a drop in the ocean."

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/25/snakes-flori...

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