If you live in Florida, you undoubtedly share a home with the green iguana, a non-native species that has proliferated in the tropical climate of the Sunshine State. While some residents are happy to share their territory with the reptiles, which can grow to up six feet in length and weigh more than 20 pounds, others see the lizards as a scourge on the environment and yet another example of the detrimental effects of invasive species on Florida’s delicate ecosystem.

In July, the Florida Wildlife Commission (FWC) urged locals to kill the reptiles “whenever possible.” Then quickly back-peddled by issuing the following statement: “Unfortunately, the message has been conveyed that we are asking the public to just go out there and shoot them up,” said FWC Commissioner Rodney Barreto. “This is not what we are about; this is not the ‘wild west.’”

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