Florida outsources snake catching jobs - hires two snake hunters of Tamil Nadu for $68,888

India is known for snake charmers and their ability to catch snakes is also being appreciated by Florida because the Florida wildlife officials have outsourced the job of catching Burmese pythons to people of the Irula tribe of Tamil Nadu.
Two Indian snake hunters have been hired by Florida wildlife officials and their job is to get rid of the pythons, which are wiping out small mammal populations and driving some of them to near extinction in a tropical wetland in the US state.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 27 January 2017.

The two snake catchers, both in their 50s, were inducted along with two translators. They have to work with detection dogs to track down and capture the giant snakes. The commission says it paid USD 68,888 to hire the Irula men and their translators and fly them to South Florida from their home in southern India and they will stay in Florida through February.
It seems their success rate has surprised the officals of Florida Fish and Wildlfe Conservation Commission (FWC) - in just eight days, they bagged as many as 13 pythons. One of the catch was a 16-foot-long female. Four of these were on their first visit to Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge on North Key Largo in partnership with the US Fish and Wildlife Service.


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