The Python Invasion of the Everglades Is Even Worse Than We Thought

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Could the problem be solved by eating pythons? We turn them into food supply and profit opportunity. We could also find some reward system for python hunters.

It will be very expensive. The Everglades is not easy territory to go hunting for pythons, and as you read, they lie in wait, which makes them hard to find.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-01-10/killing-py... points out that it takes about 92 hours to hunt down snake.

In that month-long Python Challenge, which drew "1,600 people from over 30 states in the hope of cash prizes" only 68 pythons were killed. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2280518/Hunters-kill...

Thank you for the info. I would have never imagined hunting them would take so long.

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