The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Thursday presented an update on the proposed mitigation package for the partial release of easements in Split Oak Forest.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Thursday voted unanimously for a set of rules that would ban owning or breeding six types of pythons, the green anaconda and nine other high-risk reptiles.
The upshot of the ruling means that your pet tegu can live out the rest of its lizard days in Florida, but don t expect to buy a new one after that. Same goes for the other high-risk reptiles that biologists see as ecological terrorists, but enthusiasts love as scaly family members.
The new rules would, eliminate commercial breeding and pet ownership of 16 high-risk reptiles; put the high-risk reptiles on the state s prohibited species list, and limiting possession to permitted facilities engaged in educational exhibition, research or eradication or control activities.