They could have saved everyone a lot of economic hardship and heartbreak if they had done this several decades ago.
I honestly have mixed feelings about this. I think it's closing the barn door after the horse is already out, but the truth is that Florida should never have been an importation hub for tropical species in the first place, and it still shouldn't be--whether they're snakes and nile monitors, or tropical fish, or plants, or whatever.
I suppose existing breeders and importers there will have to either move, or stop dealing with those species. That isn't going to be kind to their local economy, or to those businesses. But with this in place, there is really no more need for the proposal to ban these animals Federally, so we may have an easier time stopping this for the rest of the country.
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