Burmese Python and Other
Constrictors Issues
See more in our
Federal Legislation Alerts Section
Challenges in Identifying Sites Climatically Matched
to the Native Ranges of Animal Invaders Rodda,
etc...February 2011
NEW
USGS Press:
Technical Announcement: Challenges identified in using
models to predict snake and other animal invasions
2/9/2011
NEW
FWC Report: Fatal Kid's Injuries Due to Python's Escape
2009 (4MB PDF)
NEW
Cold-induced mortality of invasive Burmese pythons in
south Florida Mazzotti, etc...Spring 2010
NEW
Burmese Pythons Climate Data
Cold
weather and the potential range of invasive Burmese pythons
Avery, etc...Spring 2010
NEW
PUBLIC COMMENTS
SENT TO USFWS REGARDING
PROPOSED FEDERAL BAN ON CONSTRICTOR SNAKES, aka "PYTHON BAN"
Federal Register:
Injurious Wildlife Species; Listing the Boa
Constrictor, Four Python Species, and Four Anaconda Species as Injurious
Reptiles 3/12/2010 NEW
USFWS Press:
Service Seeks Public Comment on Plan To Restrict Giant
Invasive Snakes (Deadline 5/11/2010)
3/11/2010
Salazar Moves to Ban Importation and Interstate
Transfer of Burmese Python and Eight Other Giant Invasive Snakes
1/20/2010
A Flawed USGS Report on Giant Constrictors
By David G. Barker and Tracy M. Barker
The Precautionary Principle and Pythons
By David G. Barker and Tracy M. Barker
Civil Reptile Rights Activist March in 2010
,
Civil March Proposal
FAQ: USA FEDERAL BILLS H.R. 2811 and S. 373 to Include
Python genera as an Injurious Animal Winter 2009/2010
CAPTIVE PYTHONS AND BOAS IN THE USA: Separating Facts
from Fiction December 2009
USGS Press:
Report Documents the Risks of Giant Invasive Snakes in
the U.S. 10/13/2009
Giant Constrictors: Biological and Management Profiles
and an Establishment Risk Assessment for Nine Large Species of Pythons,
Anacondas, and the Boa Constrictor Full Propaganda Ridden
USGS Report, 2009
FAQs:
Python Permit Program
PRESS:
Secretary Salazar Announces Renewed Commitment,
Expanded Programs to Eliminate Pythons from Everglades
7/17/2009
Editorial:
Python Attacks And Hysterical Politicians
By Zuzana Kukol, 7/12/2009
USARK:
Wake Up Call to Reptile
Nation! 7/11/2009
| Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife and
Subcommittee on Oversight joint hearing entitled, “Threats to Native
Wildlife Species.” 7/8/2009, 10:00 AM EDT, EPW Hearing Room - 406
Dirksen
ARCHIVE WEBCAST |
| Witnesses: Opening Remarks,
Panel 1 |
|
Gary Frazer, Assistant
Director for Fisheries and Habitat Conservation, United States Fish
and Wildlife Service |
|
Bill Clay, Acting Associate
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United
States Department of Agriculture |
| Witnesses: Opening Remarks,
Panel 2 |
|
Dr. Gregory Ruiz, Senior
Scientist, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Marine
Invasions Research Laboratory |
|
Rebecca Humphries, Director,
Michigan Department of Natural Resources |
|
John Torgan, Narragansett Baykeeper, Save the Bay, Inc.
|
|
Jeffrey E. Hill, Assistant
Professor, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University
of Florida |
| Statement of Senator
Carl
Levin |
| Statement of Senator
Bill
Nelson |
USARK:
Press Release
July 2, 2009
Scott Hollifield: Python project bound to go HORRIBLY
WRONG The McDowell News, 6/25/2009
REXANO Video:
Exotic Animal Owners Under Attack
Captive Constrictor Snakes (Non-Venomous) Related
Human Fatalities in the USA by State and Type, Yearly and Lifetime Odds:
1990 - 2008
Video:
Pythons Set Up Home in South Carolina
6/24/2009
News:
Foridal State wildlife officials propose bounty on
pythons in Everglades 5/28/2009
Biologists: Deadly Pythons May Not Get Out
of Florida 8/14/2008 FOX News
Claims of Potential Expansion throughout
the U.S. by Invasive Python Species Are Contradicted by
Ecological Niche Models R. Alexander
Pyron1,2*, Frank T. Burbrink2, Timothy J. Guiher1,2 August 2008
REXANO Opposes Addition of
Constrictor Snakes to the List of Injurious Wildlife Under the
Lacey Act.
Input Needed on Possible Federal Boa and
Python Ban
Deadline April 30, 2008
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by one of
the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
HERE
U.S. mail or hand-delivery: Public Comments Processing,
Attn: RIN 1018-AV68, Division of Policy and Directives
Management, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 222,
Arlington, VA 22203.
Instructions: We will not accept e-mail or faxes. We will post
all
comments on http://www.regulations.gov. This generally means
that we
will post any personal information you provide us (see the
Public
Comments section below for more information).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin
Williams, Branch of Invasive
Species at (703) 358-2034 or
erin_williams@fws.gov
The Distribution of the Burmese Python,
Python molurus bivittatus By David G. Barker
and Tracy M. Barker
NEW
Comments on a Flawed Herpetological Paper
and an Improper and Damaging News Release from a Government
Agency
NEW
Sample Letters by
Eric Roscoe
and
Cynthia Marsh,
feel free to use as a guideline
NEWS:
Global Warming: Boo, Hiss-Now for some
biting humor By By Gene Weingarten, Washington
Post, 3/30/2008
Propaganda behind the python proposal:
USGS Maps Show Potential Non-Native Python
Habitat Along Three U.S. Coasts
2/20/2008
Federal News Radio Snakes
on a . . . Map Gordon Rodda, Zoologist, USGS, 2/21/2008
MP3
wma
History:
Klein, Hastings Express Concerns Over Rise
in Invasive Pythons in the Everglades 9/5/2007
Everglades invaders prompt collaborative
snake studies 10/13/2006
Injurious Animal Regulations and Permit
Process if the Proposal is Accepted
§ 16.22 Injurious wildlife permits
The Director may, upon receipt of an
application and in accordance with the issuance criteria of this
section, issue a permit authorizing the importation into or
shipment between the continental United States, the District of
Columbia, Hawaii, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any
possession of the United States of injurious wildlife (See
subpart B of this part) for zoological, educational, medical, or
scientific purposes.
(a) Application requirements. Submit applications for permits to
import, transport or acquire injurious wildlife for such
purposes to the Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
(Attention: Office of Management Authority), 4401 N. Fairfax
Drive, Room 700, Arlington, VA 22203. Submit applications in
writing on a Federal Fish and Wildlife License/Permit
application (Form 3–200) and attach all of the following
information:
(1) The number of specimens and the common and scientific names
(genus and species) of each species of live wildlife proposed to
be imported or otherwise acquired, transported and possessed;
(2) The purpose of such importation or other acquisition,
transportation and possession;
(3) The address of the premises where such live wildlife will be
kept in captivity;
(4) A statement of the applicant's qualifications and previous
experience in caring for and handling captive wildlife.
(b) Additional permit conditions. In addition to the general
conditions set forth in part 13 of this subchapter B, permits to
import or ship injurious wildlife for zoological, educational,
medical, or scientific purposes shall be subject to the
following conditions:
(1) All live wildlife acquired under permit and all progeny
thereof, must be confined in the approved facilities on the
premises authorized in the permit.
(2) No live wildlife, acquired under permit, or any eggs or
progeny thereof, may be sold, donated, traded, loaned, or
transferred to any other person unless such person has a permit
issued by the Director under §16.22 authorizing him to acquire
and possess such wildlife or the eggs or progeny thereof.
(3) Permittees shall notify the nearest Special Agent-in-Charge
(see §10.22 of this chapter) by telephone or other expedient
means within 24 hours following the escape of any wildlife
imported or transported under authority of a permit issued under
this section, or the escape of any progeny of such wildlife,
unless otherwise specifically exempted by terms of the permit.
(c) Issuance criteria. The Director shall consider the
following in determining whether to issue a permit to import or
ship injurious wildlife for zoological, educational, medical, or
scientific purposes:
(1) Whether the wildlife is being imported or otherwise acquired
for a bona fide scientific, medical, educational, or zoological
exhibition purpose;
(2) Whether the facilities for holding the wildlife in captivity
have been inspected and approved, and consist of a basic cage or
structure of a design and material adequate to prevent escape
which is maintained inside a building or other facility of such
structure that the wildlife could not escape from the building
or other facility after escaping from the cage or structure
maintained therein;
(3) Whether the applicant is a responsible person who is aware
of the potential dangers to public interests posed by such
wildlife, and who by reason of his knowledge, experience, and
facilities reasonably can be expected to provide adequate
protection for such public interests; and
(4) If such wildlife is to be imported or otherwise acquired for
zoological or aquarium exhibition purposes, whether such
exhibition or display will be open to the public during regular
appropriate hours.
(d) The Office of Management and Budget approved the information
collection requirements contained in this part 16 under 44 U.S.C.
3507 and assigned OMB Control Number 1018–0093. The Service may
not conduct or sponsor, and you are not required to respond to,
a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid
OMB control number. We are collecting this information to
provide information necessary to evaluate permit applications.
We will use this information to review permit applications and
make decisions, according to criteria established in various
Federal wildlife conservation statutes and regulations, on the
issuance, suspension, revocation, or denial of permits. You must
respond to obtain or retain a permit. We estimate the public
reporting burden for these reporting requirements to average 2
hours per response, including time for reviewing instructions,
gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the
forms. Direct comments regarding the burden estimate or any
other aspect of these reporting requirements to the Service
Information Collection Control Officer, MS–222 ARLSQ, U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, Washington, DC 20240, or the Office of
Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project (1018–0093),
Washington, DC 20603.
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