Letter: Could this help?

Editor, Daily News:

I am writing to support putting a moratorium on alligator hunts in Florida until more is known about the affect of the alligator's ability to control the invading python.

Given the fact that an established reptile invader has never been wiped out anywhere, the Everglades python could clearly tilt the natural balance in the Everglades ecosystem.

Frank Mazzotti, a University of Florida wildlife professor, stated that "the python is thriving in the wildest place in the state."

The state of Florida has been drawing up strategies to take out the python without much success for the past two years.

The unprecedented recent increase in alligator attacks on humans and pets in the state of Florida may not be due to the low water levels as being suggested, but instead, maybe due to alligators being forced to look for an alternate source of food as the increasing number of pythons compete with the alligators for survival.

If this is correct, as more large alligators are killed, we will have more attacks on humans by alligators in the state.

Juan R. Puerto, M.D. , Immokalee