Photo Courtesy FWC

You can now buy a permit to hunt Burmese Pythons in Florida. For $26 any Florida resident with a hunting license can kill pythons on four areas of state-managed lands around the Everglades. Florida Fish and Wildlife authorities estimate there are thousands of Burmese pythons in the wild in South Florida.

The permit also allows hunters to kill other non-native snakes and lizards including Indian and African Rock Pythons, Reticulated pythons, African rock pythons scrub pythons, green anacondas and Nile monitor lizards. Hunters are free to do whatever they wish with the reptile's skin and meat.

Permit application http://myfwc.com/docs/Permits/Permit_NonnativeReptileRemoval.pdf

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