every year 10,000 hunters apply for 7,000 licenses in a lottery style selection process. it s estimated there are 1.3 million alligators in the state, but not everyone s happy with the change. pete corradino is a wildlife biologist and owner of everglades day safari, he s in lehigh acres in southern florida. thank you for being with us, good evening to you there in florida. this takes effect tomorrow, monday for you guys. what does this hunting specifically entail? well, the huntina specifically entail? well, the hunting is specifically entail? well, the hunting is something - specifically entail? well, the hunting is something that i specifically entail? well, the l hunting is something that has been going on for quite a long time but what has changed now as they are going to allow 24 hour hunting and what my opposition to is the change is that are going to happen is right where we take our tourists. so everglades day safari takes tourists out on a air boat ride and that is specific
time but what has changed now is they are going to allow 24 hour hunting and what my opposition to is the changes that are going to happen is right where we take our tourists. so everglades day safari takes guests out on a air boat ride and that is specifically on a place called lake trafford where there are thousands of alligators and by opening up the hunting season to daylight hours, it is going to put hunters and tourists in conflict with each other and potentially putting people in harms way, so that is the situation we are looking at starting tomorrow. but the fish and wildlife commission says 1.3 million alligators is simply too many, something has to be done. if that is their take on it, that is not really what is going on. we got 1.3 million alligators, maybe even more. historically we had probably 4 million alligators but over the course of the 20th century, alligators were hunted nearly to extinction. they were put on the endangered species list and their
so everglades day safari takes guests out on a air boat ride and that is specifically on a place called lake trafford where there are thousands of alligators and by opening up the hunting season to daylight hours, it is going to put hunters and tourists in conflict with each other and potentially putting people in harms way, so that is the situation we are looking at starting tomorrow. but the fish and wildlife commission says 1.3 million alligators is simply too many, something has to be done. if that is their take on it, that is not really what is going on. we got 1.3 million alligators, maybe even more. historically we had probably 4 million alligators but over the course of the 20th century, alligators were hunted nearly to extinction. they were put on the endangered species list and their population numbers have come back very well, but what their basis