ramonmercado
CyberPunk
- Joined
- Aug 19, 2003
- Messages
- 58,109
- Location
- Eblana
Well done!
A South Florida teenager captured 28 Burmese pythons during a 10-day competition that was created to increase awareness about the threats the invasive snakes pose to the state’s ecology.
Matthew Concepcion was among 1,000 participants from 32 states, Canada and Latvia who participated in the annual challenge, which removed 231 of the unwanted pythons, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said.
The 19-year-old was rewarded for his efforts with the 10,000 US dollars (£8,785) Ultimate Grand Prize courtesy of the Bergeron Everglades Foundation.
Dustin Crum won a 1,500 dollars (£1,318) for removing the longest python – one measuring just over 11ft (3.3m).
Earlier this year, a team of biologists hauled in the heaviest Burmese python ever captured in Florida. The female weighed in at 215lb (98kg), was nearly 18ft long (5m) and had 122 developing eggs, according to the Conservancy of Southwest Florida.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-40992431.html
A South Florida teenager captured 28 Burmese pythons during a 10-day competition that was created to increase awareness about the threats the invasive snakes pose to the state’s ecology.
Matthew Concepcion was among 1,000 participants from 32 states, Canada and Latvia who participated in the annual challenge, which removed 231 of the unwanted pythons, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said.
The 19-year-old was rewarded for his efforts with the 10,000 US dollars (£8,785) Ultimate Grand Prize courtesy of the Bergeron Everglades Foundation.
Dustin Crum won a 1,500 dollars (£1,318) for removing the longest python – one measuring just over 11ft (3.3m).
Earlier this year, a team of biologists hauled in the heaviest Burmese python ever captured in Florida. The female weighed in at 215lb (98kg), was nearly 18ft long (5m) and had 122 developing eggs, according to the Conservancy of Southwest Florida.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-40992431.html