Environmental Policy
There’s a Snake Eating my Dog!
The environmental stepwise process is a process people take to implement, assess, and interpret environmental related policies. The first step is to identify the problem, this is rather simple because there are lots of problems in our day-day lives. Next you have to Pinpoint the roots of the problem, followed by envisioning a solution for these problems. Now, a particular issue could have multiple causes, and thus multiple solutions. The you will get organized; when it comes to influencing policy, organizations are usually more successful than individual people are. The next step is the hardest, To cultivate access and influence. If you have a moving issue, influencing won't be so
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The government tends to look at things based on an “economical standpoint” that tends to run biased- as they tend to ignore the moral/ethical aspects of the issue at hand. However, citizens and businesses tend to APPEAR on the same side of the fence because businesses will do anything to give the customers, or citizens what they want. However, the sad reality is that many businesses Greenwash their products into seeming more environmentally friendly.
In our everglades and the surrounding areas of Florida, there is an ever-growing issue taking place. This is an issue that many people are aware of- and fear. They fear for their lives- but should they be afraid? Many people think that large constrictors are dangerous to humans, but little do people understand that they are JUST as dangerous as a feral cat or dog. I’m not saying you should go pick up a wild burmese python and take it home as a pet. However, what I am saying, is there have been some major overreactions to the invasion of large constrictors.
The large constrictor issue is suspected to have began with a breeding facility for large constrictors in the everglades. What happened was a complete accident. As common practice breeders keep their snakes in tubs on large racks, and it is rumored that during a hurricane the tubs of his breeding stock were knocked over and the large constrictors released into the everglades where they have since learned to
The presenters of the burmese pythons is negative it is impacting Florida's everglades. According to the news article that the senate of the committee brought a 16 foot long snake skin to a meeting. Its response to these is Florida's fishing and wildlife and sent out a prize to whoever finds the fattiest and the longest. The longest python found was 23 feet long and the fatties one was 200 pounds.
One misty morning in 2003, deep under the cover of the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, a group of tourists set out for a day of exploration in the Everglades. They hoped to see some of the diverse and unique species that the Everglades are famous for, and maybe snap a few cool pictures to show their friends. They could never have anticipated what they would actually discover. A short way into their trek, the party was drawn to a noisy struggle nearby. They followed their ears to a duel between an alligator and a huge Burmese Python. The alligator clamped his jaws around the snake. The snake wrapped its body around the alligator. The tourists
The Invasion of the Pythons by Amaya Lewicki Imagine you are a measly creature living within the huge wetlands of the Florida Everglades. As you are going through your daily life and routines you suddenly see a big Burmese python upon you who looks as threatening as ever. A bunch of them surround you leading to the realization of what your fate will become. Burmese pythons are a huge threat to all animals who are inhabitants of the Florida Everglades.
Burmese Pythons are taking over the Everglades. Burmese Pythons are taking over the Everglades because the people that owned them, they thought the Burmese Pythons were too big, so they let them go into the Florida Everglades. Also the people of Florida are having a thing called a python hunt. That's going to hurt the environment because the people of Florida are letting untrained hunters to kill Burmese Pythons with shotguns ex, The people might even be a bigger threat to the Everglades. Some of the people have not seen pythons at all so they might shoot any kind of snake.
During their vacation, a family traveled to the Everglades to enjoy and relax in nature, but their trip was interrupted by a 20 feet long snake. It sounds very frightening, as well as uncommon. However, any person that visits the Florida Everglades has a very good change of encountering a snake like that one, called Burmese pythons. Their population in this natural area has increased tremendously because humans adopt them as pets when they’re young and later release them into the Everglades. The presence of the Burmese pythons is having a large effect on the Everglades because they are killing local animals, endangering its ecosystem, and outing people in danger.
To lead off, the Burmese python is changing local animals. The python is an eating machine, so they consume all of the animals native to the Everglades. If they eat all of the animals, the Everglades will be a grim place to be. The pythons are taking away from the beauty of the Everglades. In text 2 it states, “With no natural predators, these eating machines appear to be wiping out huge numbers of opossums, raccoons, and bobcats, as well as many bird species.” This is evidence that these snakes are gruesome. If the pythons eat all the animals from lagoons and surrounding land, it can rupture the food chain. This is why the pythons are dreadful to the Everglades.
With no natural predator, the animal is thriving and getting fatter by the minute. The Burmese pythons are loving their new home and enjoying the hot weather. Source 2 states that “Florida Senator Bill Nelson actually took the skin from a 16-foot Burmese python to the Senate Committee…” This was to address the snake problem. When the python first arrived, it wasn’t much to worry about, but they have multiplied and now something needs to be done. To protect the rest of the Everglades, people are going to be hunting these harmful reptiles. Source 2 also states, “If you happen to be in the area, be sure to wear a bullet proof vest.” To conclude, this powerful animal is threatening many species of animals and their homes. The wildlife workers are trying their best to put it all to an
There are many different types of snakes in the state of Florida from the average garden snake to the very venomous Eastern Diamondback Rattle but so far the only one that has both citizens and politicians truly worried about are the Burmese Pythons that are located in the Everglades, a National Park located in southern Florida. Burmese Pythons have a beautiful patterned skin, a rapid growth rate, which is known as the largest snake of choice to be owned by human. During, captivate Burmese python are poorly taking care of; some turn on their owners and end up killing them. Due to, them being poorly taking care pythons are release into the wild or in a nearby wooded area to defended for themselves and find food.
Also according to the Florida’s python hunt newspaper, “Many pets turned loose by their owners when they become too big- threatening the Florida Everglades,”. If people keep letting their snakes go into the Everglades they will overpopulate and spread all over. This leads to the mass spreading as mentioned in paragraph 3. People release these snakes because they never researched how big they are and will get, so they get surprised when the snake gets to be too big, and they can’t take care of it. People could just donate the snake to a zoo or animal sanctuary, which would take good care of them. People also need to do their research before getting an animal first
In the 1980s the Burmese python was transported the United States as an exotic pet from Southeast Asia, but soon after owners began releasing the natural predator into Florida’s Everglades. The population of the python in the Everglades was estimated to be 5,000 – 180,000 in 2009 by South Florida Water Management
Taking over with no natural predator, the Burmese Python. These very large pythons have been effecting our Everglades drastically. Once native to the swampy marshes of Southeast Asia, these snakes are now migrating over to Florida. Being so large and having no natural predator, they have really made a strong change in our Florida wildlife. These dangerous pythons have altered the population of animals in the Everglades by so much that people are beginning to worry about what will happen next. The snakes didn’t get there on their own, but now we don’t have any way of stopping them.
I think that these pythons are causing many problems and if we do not remove them from the ecosystem soon, they might cause permanent damage. I think that if we need to step in to stop this problem, it has grown far too big for comfort. These snakes are diminishing populations by the minute. If we wait any longer, the entire Florida ecosystem may no longer
In this paper we will discuss the final stages of how a topic becomes a policy. The paper will discuss formulation, implementation, and the legislation stage. These stages must be done in this order to ensure the policy is being formed the correct way and not scattered around. This paper will also consist of the evaluation stage, analysis stage, and revision stage and describe the purpose and methodologies process for evaluating and revising a public policy.
The first step in creating this a new policy is the idea on how to address the current problem. During this first step, brainstorming is often encouraged during the formulation process so that there is more than one potential solution to the problem (Lohrey, 2014). Another consideration for policy formulation is determining if the policy will need to involve local, state, and/or federal government involvement to be put on their agenda. There are many ways to approach any given problem, and during policy formation, relevant individuals (such as stakeholders and researchers) and groups will determine the different ideas to approach the proposed policy.
According to Mintzberg, the environmental school of thought is a strategy dealing with the forces outside the organization. Unlike the other schools in his book, Strategy Safari, the environment plays a central role in the strategy formation process alongside leadership and the organization where the organization becomes subordinate to the external environment. The environmental school assumptions are that during the formative period of the organization the company shapes itself in response to the environment, but after that period is increasingly unable to respond to the environment. Moreover, the organization long term survival depends on the early choices made during its formative period. Over time, Mintzberg states, leadership becomes