Another bogus “hunt”.
The reason so few were caught is that they’re all dying of respiratory infections, thanks to the “global warming” cold spells down there.
Fact is, development and Big Sugar are responsible for the decline of native animals.
Google photos of the swamp, then and now.
Huge tracts have been back filled and houses put on them and the water has been diverted for the houses.
But yeah, blame it on snakes.
They’re evil and make great scapegoats.
No one is hunting the non-native birds and iguanas that have displaced native species or the millions of feral cats, killing everything.
People would pitch a fit, if they did, reality be damned.
Yup.
And nitwits dumping pets.
I shudder to think if they had kids.
Well, even assuming your right about evil developers, for the present it’s illegal to put a bounty on them and kill them, so in my book an invasive species that has the potential to kill humans is a species that should be removed asap.
And anyone who wants one for a pet should have to pay a very hefty annual license fee to go to a fund to pay for the bounties on released or escaped pythons.