LEE COUNTY, Fla. -- State wildlife officials are offering valuable prizes to anyone willing to help preserve native wildlife by removing pythons from the wild.
The FWC’s Python Pickup Program is an incentive program designed to encourage the public to remove Burmese pythons from the Everglades ecosystem and report locations to the FWC. People who submit proof of python with location of removal will be entered into the monthly prize drawing as well as a grand prize drawing in 2018.
Monthly prizes include snake hooks, custom engraved Yeti tumblers, Plano sportsman’s trunks, GoPro cameras and Badlands backpacks, and the grand prize is a Lifetime Sportsman’s License.
Pythons may be captured by any legal and humane means, but you must comply with state and local regulations. The use of poisons, remote controlled firearms, or gasoline or other chemical or gaseous substances to drive wildlife including pythons from burrows or retreats is prohibited on any property.
For more information, visit the FWC's Python Pickup Program page.
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