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Media reports indicated the detention site would be sold to the National Park Service.

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The primary goal of the hunt is never the body count. It was awareness — of the pythons and not to let other species free in the public — and on that measure it worked. While the public became aware of the python problem nothing anyone tried slowed down their movement through the Everglades.
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