My own training is as a biologist, with a minor in Journalism. If anyone would like to check the archive ways back when the first burm stories started to appear. you'll find that I was saying then the same thing I'll say today-we will lose this war and lose big.



The public does not like nor understand snakes, especially 20-foot potential pet and child eaters. The media, when it comes to this subject, is no different from the public-in fact perhaps worse in that it is made up of largely urban "liberal arts" types who have even less understanding of science than your average educated person.



Finally (and the last nail in our coffin) sensational stories sell to the public and deliver a larger audience to advertisers. What could possibly be more sensational than giant snakes slowly crawling toward Washington D.C.?



Against these basic facts of human nature, we have no chance. Our only chance in the beginning was to try to keep this as quiet as possible-once it bacame a "big story", we had already lost. I guess when this is over we'll at least have the small consolation that we were right.



One basic truth we should be stressing that we generally are not, IMO, is that the Everglades were, unnoticed by the media, RUINED many years ago, by a combination of Mercury contamination and a plethora of invasive plants, fish, birds and insects. Where were they then when a few of us were trying to get their attention??
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