Florida expands python fight; 1,000 apply to become hunters

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The going rate: $8.65 an hour, with extra bounties depending on the length of the snake. It’s an additional $50 for the first 4 feet and $25 for every foot thereafter. Hunters who catch pythons that were guarding eggs can collect an extra $200.

Since March 2017, hunters have removed more than 2,500 pythons from the Everglades in Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Collier and Hendry counties. Pythons have eliminated more than 95 percent of the natural area’s fur-bearing animals, such as rabbits and possums, Smith said.

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-ne-nsf-python-hunt-expands-hunters-20190913-27j2xinourgwxark7jphztmdou-story.html

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1. Well, they have Rattlesnake Roundups in Texas...

https://mobile-cuisine.com/recipes/recipe-poached-burmese-python-curry/

Recipe: Poached Burmese Python Curry

Ever wonder how to prepare python meat? Have you ever cared to know? Well. the big story coming from the Everglades in Southern Florida these days is the problems the locals are having with the influx of Burmese pythons that have made the Everglades their home. The problem is so bad that Florida has opened up hunting of these reptiles to try to cull their rapidly growing numbers. From Jan. 12 through Feb. 10 1,000 people have been granted permission to hunt the pythons on public land.

We felt that the quickest way to get more of these foreign invaders caught, would be to provide a recipe to use once the snakes are captured, so the python recipe we are sharing today is a poached Burmese python curry.

And think of the great shoes and clothes...

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2. I hear Florida also has an iguana problem..

My husband brought home some smothered iguana from a friend the other day. It was delicious. He said you can buy iguana in the local Hispanic oriented grocery store here in Houston.