re: How does Florida get rid of a plague of pythons?

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Current regulations say you have to catch the python live, by hand and dispatch it later. That alone will eliminate a lot of people from even trying to catch pythons. That's a really stupid regulation. For a dangerous invasive species that is destroying the animals in our native ecosystem, anything that works should be okay!

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No it’s not stupid. I’m all for shooting them. The issue is they are in Everglades National Park and wildlife management areas and other nature/ public areas. You can’t just allow people with guns to roam around looking for them to shoot, the general public is stupid.

Are there any national parks with hunting even of invasive species? There’s hunting on national wildlife refuges I know but fairly certain not in national parks.

They can’t freeze, so there’s a parallel where they basically will never move north on.

ETA: you can shoot them on private land year round