After 2013 Event Netted Only 68 Invasive Snakes, Florida Reboots Python Challenge
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Florida is staging the 2016 Python Challenge, its second big hunt in three years for serpents that invaded the Everglades a few decades ago and are now vying with alligators for supremacy atop the food chain. This is your chance to kill them.
All you need to join the hunt is $25 for an application and a passing grade on an online test designed to help you distinguish between newly arrived pythons and native snakes that have lived through the scrub brush and muck for eons. The month-long event is set for Jan. 16.
When the last python challenge was held about three years ago, nearly 1,600 people showed up with everything from clubs to knives to guns. They had the best intentions. Most thought they could rid the Everglades of Florida’s worst swamp thing. But most had no idea about what they were doing. They were terrible at actually tracking, catching and lopping the heads off pythons.
Only 68 snakes were caught, even though the U.S. Geological Survey estimates that 5,000 to 100,000 pythons are in the swamp. The lion’s share of the five dozen caught were bagged by fearless trained experts with a keen eye for spotting the snakes and the gumption to snag them by hand.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/10/13/hate-giant-pythons-florida-wants-you-to-come-kill-a-few/
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