The huge Burmese python campaign in America

Florida state authorities plan to hire many Burmese python hunters, invasive species that harm native wildlife.

The South Florida Water Resources Agency has since launched a campaign to hire 25 snake-snatchers to destroy the huge Burmese python raging in the area, according to CNN.

Biologist Ian Bartoszek and Burmese python colleagues in southwestern Florida.(Photo: CNN).

"Burmese pythons are eating everything in the Everglades wetlands , where native wildlife reside," said conservation biologist and reptile expert Joe Wasilewski.

The pilot project, with a cost of $ 175,000, will last for two months and recruit many experts to monitor pythons, the hardest part of the hunt, and kill them.

Hunters are paid $ 50 for each 1.2 meter long python and an additional $ 25 for every 30cm of the animal's length. They also received an additional $ 100 if they discovered the python was keeping the eggs in the nest.

Burmese Burmese are growing exponentially in the Everglades after pet owners release them into the wild. A program called "Python Challenge" last year called for amateur hunters to kill or catch pythons to bring in special areas for destruction, then hunters were allowed to sell leather and python meat for profit.