I believe it was more sinister than that. I don’t think many are aware that we have built out down here, that is every available plot of land is spoken for or gone right to the very edge of the everglades. If they don’t find a way to get that land, the construction and development folks are in deep doo doo. I believe there is a publicity plan to make folks believe that the everglades is a bad place, already ruined and not worth protecting. I do not doubt the pythons were bought by the people who are behind this and deliberately released by them. I know a lot of people who’s first snake was a boa constrictor. They were the first popular exotic import for the pet trade. If it were true that the burmese were started from deliberate occasional pet release and able to establish themselves like they have, then the boa would have been long established first. The burmese success at establishing here is unprecedented in history and fairly unbelievable if you just think logically about it. It was almost imposable without some deliberate plan. Someone should go through the import records and see who brought in the ones that didn’t end up going out to the trade. Someone paid for them and did this on purpose.

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