Being from floridaaaa.I love it Yes we have parrots/monkeys walking cat fish/burms /iguanas/monitors/geckos/caimen/pirrahana And alot more.Now how many species have or biologist introduced Lets see.grass carp to eat hydrilla/moths to eat paper tree by the way they introduced to dry up everglades.austalian pines introduced for wind block.all kinds of invaisives.I work doing wetland recreation.We spend billions a year to fix these screw ups.As far as bad press I did see a gator eating a burm on news.You don't see much on that part of introduced species providing food for our native species.They are just trying to get more restrictions for all of us.Look up all intoduced species to florida our goverment introduced to get rid of the very same invaisives they introduced which turned out to be a mistake.Oh grass carp are supposed to be sterile.OOPS now they are reproducing and eating native aquatic vegetation.A few monitors burms and scare stories will help push for new restrictions.Sorry for long post and bad spelling .
Just tired of hearing scare tactics.Personally I love seeing parrots iguannas and all these things I wish we could introduce endangered species fron madagasgar here to give them a chance.
Mike

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