Luckily it's over a 5 hour drive from me or I'd probably be more tempted. I get the feeling it'd just be a depressing spectacle all around. It's not the removing/euthanizing that bothers me. It's advertising to a bunch of random amateurs to come stomp around in the everglades with a license to kill. I wonder how many native animals were killed during their last debacle. That's a statistic that definitely should be included when they post this stuff.In the early winter of 2013, nearly 1,600 participants in the first Python Challenge™ trekked through more than a million acres of swamps and sawgrass in search of the well-camouflaged Burmese python. Dedicated competitors removed 68 snakes from the Everglades ecosystem — the most ever removed for a similar time period. As important as the removal of these snakes was, the Python Challenge™ also brought international awareness to the challenges Florida is facing with Burmese pythons and other invasive species. The Python Challenge™ also proved to be an unprecedented opportunity to gather data about these snakes and their impacts on the ecosystem.
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