"but the peta says" I think we can all by now agree that whatever peta says or approves or dissaproves is wildly horrendous. It honestly shocks me that peta has survived this long considering how extremist and yet contradictory they are, like the amount of times they themselves mass euthanized a bunch of cats and dogs some of which were lost pets.
I actually met Amy a while ago and she freaking loves snakes so I truly believe that she hates having to harm them. This was before she even moved to Florida.
Snakes are an absolute gem on Earth, and constrictors can be amazing pets ; but python leather growing in popularity might be the best solution to encourage Burmese python hunters in Florida to help save this ecosystem.
Gets annoying when they just don't put the snakes out of their misery in the video. No, no, they gotta be alive for the bounty? And for what, just to cause more stress and pain on those animals. Also I doubt the water hyacinth is the main reason the rivers are losing life, pretty sure it's the floating trash heaps those ppl call villages
Been looking at this another perspective, If only invasive species could be returned to their homeland as easily as they were brought over? I mean they're just doing what they need in order to survive in a habitat they're not used to and were brought to against their own will.
do a little google seach and it will tell you that Burmese pythons are classified as vulnerable species. do you think the hunters will simply stop when Florida's pythons are all hunted out?
"Rehome them." Yeah. Ok. It's hard enough for places to rehome cats and dogs, people just act like it's gonna be a breeze to rehome a whole ass python.
Much as I love a Burm, you're right. They have a shitload of babies at once, and have eaten most everything that will eat their eggs or young already, so very little keeps them in check.
It's a little mind blowing that they hunt 5000 pythons a year and it doesn't even make a dent on the snake population. Also, the suggested solution of "sending them back to their native country" is about the dumbest thing I've heard in a while.
@@taraji_b There was a comment somewhere on here about the high price that a bone paste extract from them commands. Anything that has a high price like that means some industrious person would be interested.
@@Steven_Edwards didn't humans shipping animals across the world get us into this mess in a the first place? Sure there won't be some unintended consequence and disaster like even a few snakes carrying a new disease that wreaks havoc on native animals populations let alone humans?
@@taraji_b they would if the thing the snake eats is overpopulated. Everything has a niche in the ecosystem even animals people don't like. It's dumb to go "lol I hate (insert animal here) therefore I'd rather deal with the ecosystem collapsing then have any more brought in.
Touring the Everglades several years ago in an airboat, we came upon an area that was brimming with raccoons. The captain stopped and the raccoons came aboard to check us out. Last year, we went out again and I asked where the raccoons were. I got the answer, “The pythons have eaten them.” They are decimating the bird population in the Everglades.
I mean there are more than just pythons introduced the monitors and other large lizards love to snack on raccoon young and raccoons are also being competing with these invasive species. The python just gets the most blame cause they are the most easily vilified. Alligators do hunt pythons though albeit until a certain size.
Yep definitely are. Going to college down here Everglades 15 minutes down the road. Memorial weekend there was a 11 foot python strangulating a very large raccoon on the side of the road. We watched and recorded for like 20 minutes before fwc came and took out dispatch the python. 😵💫
It is tricky to find both a way to get rid of/control an invasive species without creating a market for it but this is so interesting to see and it is lovely how a pest can help a community and create value in the economy, perhaps also take demand away a bit from native species or threatened populations elsewhere
I think if businesses think flexibly, then it’s okay to create a market for something with the purpose of denuding it. They can switch to something else similar, but also problematic.
berms actually cant eat humans despite being able to swallow gators. humans aren't streamlined in shape, our heads are blunt and out shoulders are more blunt. snakes start eating from the head, so it doesn't occur to them to go from the feet. Clint's reptiles made a video on how snakes eat and its pretty cool. reticulated pythons have been the only snake that has eaten humans and its the largest snake in the world
I went to Fiji last year and every time I go to a tropical destination, I expect to hear some birds. There were none, absolutely none that it was a bit eerie. Apparently the Indian Mongoose was brought over to rid of Fiji's snakes harming sugarcane crops. But in effect, the mongoose also ate all native bird eggs.
I know what you mean I went to Australia years ago and I know about foxes that were brought in to take care of the rabbits. Unfortunately they now have a taste for the local wildlife
I have huge respect for social entrepreneurs who help to solve worlds less talked problems! The government should actively subsides these entrepreneurs to keep solving problems of these nature. All invasive species has one in thing in common; introduced by the humans!😢
It's really dangerous, especially considering the other dangerous animals in Florida, and the market probably can't sustain them. That one lady they featured had a lot of leather just hanging around, probably because she hasn't sold any of the other items she's made with the rest.
As a reptile enthusiast here, i would like to friendly point out that one of the pictues ( 3:42 ) of said "burmeese python" was actually a ball python (aka royal python) and the narator said that "they are not poisonous" but I think what was ment was Venemous. Although, they are neither of those things 😂 (they can bite you or be eated by you, none of witch will result in your death!) Keep learning about reptiles! 🐊🐢🦎🐍
I love to see people tackling problems like these. We may have caused the situation but we can solve it also if allowed to. Brilliant and interesting video. Thanks
Kind of dark actually haha. "Oops, we made a mistake by taking pythons as a pet" "Yeah lets murder them all, one by one, the stinky pests". We really are dumb, ignorant and evil.
I wonder why green crabs have a daily limit when they were never supposed to be introduced to the states to begin with. I think trying to continually eradicate it from certain places would bring that control down much better.
I do think a good reason might have to do with other destructive tendencies we did. Like purple marsh crabs in a certain area had their native predators wiped out so the only thing that can keep them in check is the green crab
The limit for the green crabs is pretty much just the best times to catch them. Males are evidently best at their molting times, and I'd bet the best time for females would be when they're full of eggs.
Here in Vietnam (and China too) we have something called Python's "cao", which basically the python's backbone stewed for days with other herbs to create a condense peanut butter-like substance. When we get backache or knee ache, we rub this on the part and its work almost instantly. That thing sells for 1-200$ per jar and catching 1 single python is enough for a village family to live for half a year. Thats why python became so rare in asian countries and are redundant in the west. And also, python skin could easily become belt or purse, which easily get people 3-500$ per python
@@tomaspalma5168 oh and Python's fat are used to cure skin burn, really effective. However, it is not as expensive since on 10ml jar can be used for a whole year and one python can product hundreds of them
You do know, environmental preservation is a left-wing political idea? Or you know, what you would call the "Woke agenda" because they deep states wants to control you using environmentalism or something stupid.
we've been crashing native fisheries for decades because we love seafood so much, why not apply the same vigor we have for salmon and cod to equally tasty invasives??
The thing I love about nature is that it's fair for every species. The moment a specie goes to a place where it doesn't have any natural predators and climbs up the food chain, nature introduces its new predator. And in this reference the humans become its new predator.
We're more like regulators than predators. If this were truly a natural process, then the invasive species would simply occupy it's respective place on the food web, and the ecosystem around it would adapt to this new influence in the area. We as humans attempt to regulate nature, because we have advanced to a point where we are no longer a part of the natural order.
That's not really a fair assessment. The reason we drive some species into extinction is that the natural environments they live in keep them in check, but we just tip the scales by adding additional pressure to the pressures they already face. Invasive species have no other pressures but us, so our added pressure can only keep them in check. We're not very good at destroying things, we're just really good at wrecking balance in nature, which then destroys itself as a consequence.
I believe there should be many more economic incentives for locals and people searching for work to go out and control the population of invasive species, this is will help prevent more mass extinction and keep our environments intact.
I liked the section on sargassum. When we heard it was heading towards Florida, I made a comment somewhere about "There should be some way to recycle it". Many people told me that was a stupid ideas. I see it isn't so far fetched.
Do you ever think, if they did this to the point where the invasive species are no longer in the habitat they don’t belong to, how do the people now profit from it? I wonder that a lot because usually if you get profit from it, you’d want it to be there still.
When they did it with rats years ago and cobras in India people started breeding them. I would hope we have more awareness now and could just switch to something else because I'm sure there will always be another invasive species or something else that needs management.
The sad thing is... I don't think we'll be able eradicate them... They have just been added to the eco system and we have now become their natural predator...
We help the ecosystem by murdering them all, one by one, while being the reason they are there in the first place. So, if you hate cats for example, let a few loose in a place where they will wrack havoc, wait a few years, and then you can legally murder them all lol. We humans are messed up
props to the journalists for researching and mentioning about the burmese python breeding facility that got destroyed by the typhoon, exotic pet keepers appreciate that you take in the time as to not to put more shade on the misunderstood community
I mean yes it’s perfectly fine as the animal is going to harm the native environment and breed faster than the actual rabbits they’re eating so even if it’s turned extinct in FLORIDA (not the country it originated from) it’s perfectly fine.
Can you please make a documentary about the invasive cats in Cyprus? People from all over the world come to Cyprus to feed them and now their numbers are more than the actual human population in the island! The problem is massive!!! The cats kill everything that moves! I remember that we had a lot of different insects. lizards, birds! Now is only cats! The people only feed them, they leave plastic bags and containers everywhere from the food they feed them on the streets, also the cats leave their feces everywhere! especially lets say by the beach that small children play in the sand. Its a mess! And nobody does anything!
you have to vet the person doing this as well as why I am guessing it is low. They have to know what they are doing and also, not be tempted to leave some to keep up supply (yes, that has happened before).
it's absurd to me that people are just finding out that crab roe is good. but then i grew up in Taiwan, which is surrounded by the ocean, so fresh, live seafood is always readily available
It's to grant them access to protected lands. They need to prove they know how to catch and remove these animals without disturbing the environment further and without hurting themselves unnecessarily. If anyone was allowed out you'd have people driving their atvs over protected wetlands looking for snakes or using excess amounts of light that can disturb the indigenous species.
In the Philippines especially in my hometown Zamboanga the is a restaurant that developed a sauce from roe of smaller crabs to put on bigger crabs, lobsters or whatever seafood you like. If they made it from green crab, they would have a market instead of finding a niche market of selling the crab whole.
There's a paper about the Kudzu plant. Apparently, it was actually a staple crop of sorts in East Asia before it spread out across the world. It's tenacity and growth have become a problem now that the industry harvesting them is disappearing.
The green crabs and the carp would make very good crab or carp curries Asian style. We have been happily currying and eating aquatic creatures like them for centuries.
This is an entertaining piece but I think you have the responsibility to your viewers to inform them that even despite all the python hunters in FL, no significant population level impacts are being made on the invasive pythons from these harvests.
@@FellsApprenticeManual removal is also one of the most ineffective, labour intensive and highly costly methods of managing invasive species. Reality is that it's extremely difficult to eradicate an invasive species once it's settled and spread. Throwing more people at the problem won't solve it.
The green crab thing is amazing... They come from Italy, and they are considered a specialty especially near Venice. They are harvested when their shells are soft, and eaten whole, they are called "moeche". The interesting thing is that right now the population of the green crab in Italy is decreasing incredibly rapid due to the invasion of Blue crabs from the atlantic.
we've had a tourist's from florida once here in the Philippines he hired my uncle as a guide and i just tagged along their hike to Mt. Banahaw we encountered a few animals but when we encountered a python the group of tourist chased it to kill it luckily my uncle stopped them saying they aren't a pest in our country unlike in florida here in the Philippines they arent treated as an invasive species but is a local wild life
There's this Vietnamese noodle dish made from crab: Bún riêu or bún riêu cua đồng (field crab noodle)... Basically small fresh water crabs are caught on the rice fields, since these crabs are small and don't have much meat, they get smashed into a paste, then filtered through a thin cloth to separate the hard shells, what left is this muddy flesh mixture residue from the crabs. Vietnamese would use this crab residue to put in boiled soup and it form a sponge like substance call riêu in bún riêu ... Nowadays it's hard to find crab on the fields, and for economic reason, people would mix this crab residue with eggs to form crab cakes for Bún riêu .....If Vietnam has this much crabs they wouldn't have to mix it with eggs at all . Vietnam cua đồng or field crabs are like 1/3 or 1/4 the size of these invasive crabs, imagine how much meat residue you get with these big crabs being smashed up and ground to a paste.
Ironic that the typha briquets produce less smoke... but they have to burn them for 6 hours beforehand, thereby releasing all the pollutants that wood would have anyway.
Don't buy an exotic pet if you can't be sure you'll be able to keep it 😢 and for the love of god don't set them "free" in a field if you can't take care of them..... Why are humans SO selfish and SO unintelligent. Can't we even consider the consequences of our actions in nature???
There is a multi level marketing scheme that profits from a certain invasive species of tree in South and central Florida. The tree is called ” Melaleuca tree”, as children we called it the “paper tree “ as the bark on the trunk peels away like thin paper. These trees were introduced to the area in order to assist in the construction industry, as they were planted in wetlands to help dry out the areas, which they do well at. Now that the trees are spreading like crazy, they are being bulldozed by companies to erect new buildings on those sites. This MLM company has forged a corporation based on buying up these useless dead trees and exacting a very fragrant but objectionally smelling oil from the wood. They sell everything from beauty aids to sanitizing products made from melaleuca oil base and its a huge racket .
If I wasn't horrified of pythons I would catch them and use those skins for gloves, boots, a cowl necked raincoat. There is such a market for them - but I'm not the one 🤣 Now, my brother....
1. Why not shoot the pyrones? 2. Crabs, turn them into a paste and make them livestock food 3. Seaweed, compost them or mix with cattle feed. It might even move methane production. 4. Water hygiene, some live stocks eat it. Turn them into compost. 5. Lionfish are hard to deal with just make it an event to hunt them and promote eating them. 6. Asian carp; its a valuable fish in Asia. If they can eat we can too. Start by schools, prisons and the army. People develop a taste for it. You could even make fishcake. Or export to Asia.
I have a Burmese python as a pet. She’s an absolutely incredible pet and I love her a lot, I caught her in my summer home in Florida when she was a hatchling and now she’s 8ft long. While I’m glad I was able to save her I completely understand the need to cull these invasive pythons and think that using the leather is a great idea, waste not want not!
The irony of complaining about humanity's actions and its consequences, and people who feel guilty or responsible about it not ending themselves to prevent further harm from being done
@@billionsmustfight yes makes total sense. If someone points out that humans are the greatest invasive species the only appropriate action for them to then do is kill themselves. I didn't say we shouldn't do anything, I'm just saying if you were viewing this from a top down perspective it's ironic. Get a grip.
Phyton meat can be cooked as meal too, here in Sarawak, we eat that snake for its meat. Some even believe that eating the snake meat helps in getting flawless skin.
Chinese people love seafood (including crab). I haven't heard of any Chinese restaurant use green crabs. There's a particular dish where we would use the tomalley (crab roe and guts) in fried rice. Definitely a missed opportunity
Snake meat is eaten as a delicacy in most places in Asia. We should be using it as well. Same for the nutria, carp, and feral hogs. Using sargassum for paper, etc., is also good, and one man figured how to make bricks with it. I'm betting that water hyacinth can be used to make paper as well as material for weaving. Crab? yeah, I'll eat some. Same for lion fish. Mmm-mmm good! As for making biofuels - absolutely. Using all of the plants for diverse products is just a bonus.
Great video! This is teh kindd of environmentalism I can get behind. It is practical, solves problems, is borne from human innovation, is capitalist, provides jobs and actually benefits people.
I agree with what they are doing. Global warming, pollution, contamination and invasive species are hurting our environment. It helps create jobs and is profitable. I'm all for it. I wish them all the best.
An advice for those ladies hunting snakes or any other animals at night: use yellow light flashlight instead of white light flashlight. It will be much easier spotting them at night, because their eyes will give them away. The eyes of all sort of animals gives a better reflection with yellow light.
“ they keep the snake on the ground, lifting it in the air, would scare it “ Really? I didn’t think snakes were afraid of heights. How do they know ? Do they ask the snake to rate its fear level. Compared to having someone step on your neck, would you rate heights as the scariest thing ? I really enjoy these videos, and the camera work is very well done. The narration often is questionable.
All I know I love my python boots , and crocodile jacket and boots , I would love to purchase some of her skins to have some clothes made keep doing what you’re doing ma’am
I wish I lived where you do. I would be SOOOOOO into this. I have a 5ft ball python and a baby cornsnake as pets and the python is a Reptile Rescue animal. I love snakes and grew up along the Ottawa River so I have encountered many different wild animals. As much as I love my animals, I would not have a problem hunting these snakes just for the thrill of it. Also they would probably be meeting up with my BBQ as well.
I'm in Australia and i grew up with my parents being wild life carers. Taught me how to love an animal but also be fine with being let go or euthanised. Like foxes and rabbits are a massive invasive species here. We did not hesitate to play with the fox cub for an afternoon, but was completely fine and understood why it couldn't be alive in Australia.
It's horrible to see aguapé (water hyacinth) causing problems in other parts of the world, I never knew that, because they are native where I live. I guess it's a case of you reap what you sowed
It's hard to believe that people don't want to eat those green crabs. If these crabs were near Asian waters they would probably be endangered real quick.
Disagree. It's clearly stated that the snakes got out due to a hurricane, meaning the building must have suffered a lot of damage. That isn't negligence. It's a natural disaster. On top of that, some of the snake presence is due to irresponsible pet owners releasing when they realize their pet has gotten way bigger than they're comfortable with.
