Python-hunting season set for next month
Posted on 06. Mar, 2010 by Howard Salus in Environment, Everglades
The Miami Herald
Joe Mennine, left, Bryan Swink and Glenn Brandon learn about Burmese pythons during a special training class Monday held by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in the Everglades.
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BY SUSAN COCKING
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Monday announced a special hunting season targeting Burmese pythons on state lands in South Florida March 8 through April 17.
The special season, created by executive order, will allow anyone with a hunting license and a $26 management area permit to take reptiles of concern — including Indian python; reticulated python; northern and southern African rock python; amethystine or scrub python; green anaconda; and Nile monitor lizard. Hunters may use rifles, pistols or shotguns, but no centerfire rifles. They may not bring reptiles out alive and must report all they kill to the FWC within 36 hours.
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