A brand new documentary produced by the YouTube Channel Real Science explores the Burmese Python’s adverse influence on the Florida Everglades. Over the previous 35 years, the invasive species unfold throughout the federally protected lands, which led to the state creating annual python looking seasons and different eradication strategies.
“That is the darkish story at the moment unfolding within the Florida Everglades, the place only a handful of Burmese pythons launched within the 80s and ’90s have multiplied into an unstoppable inhabitants of a whole lot of hundreds. Many species of reptile have been launched to Florida earlier than, however none have taken over fairly just like the Burmese python has. It’s not simply their numbers which are alarming. It’s the destruction that they trigger.
Since they’ve taken maintain, there’s been a close to complete disappearance of small and medium-sized mammals throughout massive areas of the Everglades. For these native animals, the apocalypse has come within the type of a large snake’s limitless urge for food. For years, the pythons reproduced and unfold unnoticed, hidden by the dense vegetation. However now, we’re paying consideration. And now, there are folks making an attempt to do one thing about it.”
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