RELEASED by pet owners disenchanted with caring for a monster that can grow to 8 metres long, Burmese pythons are breeding in the Florida Everglades. According to some estimates, 5000 of the snakes may now be slithering through the fragile ecosystem.
If that’s bad news for park rangers, it’s worse for the native species that the pythons are devouring. Even the top local predator, the American alligator, is not immune.
The Burmese python is just one of hundreds of potentially harmful species of wild animals brought into the US legally every year. Imports total hundreds of millions of individual animals,…
