By Joel Malkin
Jun 4, 2021
Killing iguanas IS legal in Florida, but it s how you do it that counts and a local man is learning that lesson.
As we ve reported, surveillance video shows 43-year old PJ Patterson kicking and beating a 3-foot iguana in Lake Worth Beach last September.
Trapper Mike Kimmel with
Martin County Trapping & Wildlife Rescue says that s NOT how you get rid of the invasive species. While yes we need to get them out of the ecosystem and almost always they do need to be euthanized, we need to go about that properly.
And Kimmel claims stories like this one are giving trappers a bad name.