It's not though.
A boa in Colombia being blow out to sea and swimming to land to find an island (let's say Hog Isle) where it can establish itself and evolve into the ecosystem is nature.
A bunch of pythons released into an environment a continent away from their native land (by Hurricane Andrew wiping out import facilities and humans releasing 'pets') is man-made ecological disaster.
There is (most likely) no way those snakes would have ever naturally found there way to Southern Florida.
Like how invasive rats brought on ships to remote locations and the rats destroyed native populates was a mad-made disaster. There is a lot of work being done remove them (
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/...s-environment/)
There are feral cats on the galapogos islands because they were stow aways on research and tourist vessels and they are wrecking havoc on the bird and lizard populations. Eradication is ongoing and having some success (
http://www.hear.org/galapagos/invasi...jects/cats.htm)
I do agree that burmese and other established non-native reptiles in FL will be difficult if not impossble to fully eradicate. But I don't think that means they should not try, or at least try to control and reduce the population as much as possible. There are a lot of invasive species in FL (and all over the US) wrecking havoc - pigs, cats, other flora and fauna. It's a different world we live in now with all the large amounts of exports/imports, makes is so easy for these types of things to happen. Native species get pushed out and of course the new species will find some sort of balance but that doesn't mean we can't try to preserve the environments as best we can to protect those native species before they are gone. (imo of course).
Regarding humans - well it's a different subject that could get very heated and would quickly take this off topic.
Originally Posted by AbsoluteApril
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