Phyllis Windle, a senior invasive species scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the country needs to overhaul its entire system for dealing with the python and other invasive species, which she called the "least recognized and most poorly addressed environmental threat of our time.''
This statement from the article has bothered the hell out of me since I first read it. She seriously must be living under a rock to make such a statement, and clearly has little understanding of the actual issue at hand. (I'd bet she's an armchair scientist who only read USGS report). Burmese pythons are one of the most widely recognized invasive species in the United States due to all the media attention they have been getting, and the state of Florida has been managing the issue quite well between the RoC laws and the python hunts and other efforts to lower the numbers of the feral burm population. If she really wanted to make an accurate statement, she would have stated that about feral cats...