>>Surprisingly enough, I've been emailing one of the python people at FWC, as some of their info on their flyer was inaccurate. He agreed and changed it. Seems sensible enough and he was also reacting to the congressional stance where they said the Burms were "creating havoc" in the environment. He said he's never seen that.

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>> My issue was that the flyer said that Burms have no natural predators, and that has been changed.



Wow, this is good news. Just yesterday I fired off an email to FWC addressing these two exact points. The claim that the burms are devastating the ecosystem is bad enough, but obviously that's not a simple issue, so those making the claim can dance around the fact there is no objective evidence to support it. The "no natural predator" claim we keep seeing is just an outright lie. The question is, why would a FWC flyer contain such a blatant lie in the first place??? Any imbecile knows that birds of prey, indigo/king snakes, cats, alligators, fish, egg-eating mammals all eat snakes and/or snake eggs. The thing that cracks me up is that the USGS/NPS actually released a picture of an ALLIGATOR EATING A PYTHON along with all the propaganda about how pythons are at the top of the food chain and have no natural predators.

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