as Frank stated the nile monitors are not the problem. I live in central Florida and watch thousands of acres bulldozed daily. Wow a nile may eat a few animals here and there but everytime a shopping center is put in thousands of species die. I'm all for conservation but removing the niles is only a bandaid to the effects on natural popluations. As houses, shopping centers, factories, roads, etc move into what was once wilderness then animals are packed into patches of the remaining ecosystem. The patches cannot support many animals so sooner or later die offs are going to happen. Funny story, I was watching the news not to long ago. There was a thing about a housing complex going in and would clear out several arces. Gopher tortises were know to live in the area. After several test all gopher tortises were "said to be sick" so the bulldozing began, lol. Tortises were fine till a housing complex came into play. Money talks in Florida and when so one is getting enough kick backs it wouldn't matter if Big Foot was discovered. If the last remaining big foot family was found in Florida where a shopping center had been zoned then I'm willing to bet that they would magically be sick (have aids or something) so killing them off was only humain or moving them into a zoo for safety. LOL
We may need the niles to clean up the dead after Florida plows everything under.

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