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In reply to the discussion: Florida's Python Challenge [View all]HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)20. Would you rather have an excise tax on bird feed and pet food to raise revenue
to pay for the FW employees to protect native birds, pets, and miscellaneous nongame wildlife from these things?
I know that jobs are needed, and I'm sympathetic. But I also have no problem with using volunteer labor for conservation projects. Getting volunteers into nature on these projects creates awareness and a sense of being a necessary part of natural lands stewardship.
As a matter of full disclosure, I've worn out a couple Sandvik safety axes as a volunteer controlling wood weeds on prairie restorations and wetland protection.
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it's macabre, but idiots releasing those snakes into the wild are fucking up the ecosystem there...
dionysus
Dec 2012
#1
This isn't eradicating a species. It's readicating members of a species that are misplaced into an
flamin lib
Dec 2012
#37
That story was also on one of the reality shows that dealt with FL animal control officers. n/t
woodsprite
Dec 2012
#23
Would you rather have an excise tax on bird feed and pet food to raise revenue
HereSince1628
Dec 2012
#20
Sometimes animals need to be killed. And think of all the cool boots that will be made.
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#6
I lived for two years in a house with two large Burmese pythons. They were cool to have around.
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#39
Florida needs to create a gene-altered mosquito that attack and kills pythons
Brother Buzz
Dec 2012
#13
I am all for this. This is an invasive species that is destroying the native wildlife.
okwmember
Dec 2012
#33
Better idea, drop the fee and pay a $100 bounty on every python brought in dead.
MadHound
Dec 2012
#40
The snakes don't belong in the Glades or Florida. I am ok with the bounties. nt
bluestate10
Dec 2012
#45