It sends the wrong message, horboring on fear of reptiles. This whole Florida epidemic has beeen has been mainstreamed media into a severe problem for all. After years of educational programs based on reptiles, to help teach and understand these animals as pets. The national media has deemed them once again as an issue. There are other ways to handle this problem other than paying twenty five dollars ($25.00) and taking a thirty minute (30) course online to allow some one to just go out and hunt these animals down. And by many people across the U.S. these great pythons are considered pets and family members and a source of income. And if it was feral cats, or wild dogs would this be happening. They are using everyones fear of snakes as a cause for sending possibly hundreds of people in to the everglades to hunt and destroy. How bout all the people perticipating in this knocking around bumbling into the woods destroying habitate after habitate of not only non native animals but native animals also. Coming across venomous animals as well and destroying everything in their path. I am sure that if the Fish & Wildlife department would talk with Herp professionals they could find another way to handle this problem. Instead of trying to get people to fear and hate this giant breed of reptile. After all there is a bird in Florida that is not native and is protected by the state. Working with reptile groups instead of against them, using actual science instead of fearmongoring tatics to iradicate this animal from the world. Just like everything else, what people do not understand they fear, so they destroy it. And it needs to be put into the hands of professional people to handle not Government agencies that think they know what is the best way to handle the problem. And to use real facts not made up hysteria, amatuers running around in the glades with the right to kill what ever they deem fit to be an invasive reptile. And with that said, this just needs to stop! before some one gets hurt by thier own hand, someone elses or by a seventeen foot (17) African Rock Python. And let the Reptile Nation take care of the problem for them. There are many Herpers out there with the knowledge and expertise to deal with this.