{"id":83,"date":"2009-08-03T14:42:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T19:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/?p=83"},"modified":"2013-06-03T22:31:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T03:31:30","slug":"the-laws-concerning-the-florida-python-hunt-can-be-confusing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/expert-advice\/the-laws-concerning-the-florida-python-hunt-can-be-confusing\/","title":{"rendered":"The laws concerning the Florida Python Hunt can be confusing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People seem to be under the impression that the <strong>Everglades<\/strong> are now full of <strong>hundreds<\/strong> of <strong>snake hunters<\/strong> on <strong>airboats<\/strong> randomly <strong>catching pythons<\/strong> and other <strong>large snakes<\/strong>, then <strong>collecting a bounty<\/strong> from the state of <strong>Florida<\/strong>. That is not the case at all.<\/p>\n<p>Those few who are permitted by the Florida Fish &amp; Wildlife Commission (<strong>the FWC<\/strong>)to <strong>hunt <\/strong>the <strong>pythons in Florida<\/strong> already posessed a <strong>Reptile of Concern<\/strong> license and were screened by the FWC. According to Florida statute, the <strong>Burmese Python<\/strong> is a Reptile of Concern. Those who hold a Reptile of Concern license and the <strong>Python Permit<\/strong> may search for all reptiles listed as Reptile of Concern. These include the <strong>Burmese Python, African Rock Python<\/strong>, <strong>Amethystine Python, Reticulated Python, Green Anaconda, and Nile Monitor Lizard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;bounty&#8221; they will collect is the right to sell the <strong>hides and meat<\/strong> from the reptile they catch. They will not be <strong>paid cash by the state of Florida<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Florida law, if you find a python in the wild, you do not have the <strong>right to kill<\/strong> it. You are required to call a <strong>nuisance wildlife trapper<\/strong>, and pay to have it removed.<br \/>\nEven we at <strong>Nuisance Wildlife Removal<\/strong> can only trap the reptile, not kill it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People seem to be under the impression that the Everglades are now full of hundreds of snake hunters on airboats randomly catching pythons and other large snakes, then collecting a bounty from the state of Florida. That is not the case at all. Those few who are permitted by the Florida Fish &amp; Wildlife Commission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[31,17,24,49,12,14,8,33,37,6,32],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expert-advice","tag-animal-control","tag-exotic","tag-florida","tag-free-trapper","tag-nuisance-wildlife-relocation","tag-python","tag-raccoons","tag-rat","tag-removal","tag-wildlife-control","tag-wildlife-removal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}