Is it illegal to hunt alligators in central Alabama?

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I know they have hunts in August but only for places near Mobile, (bottom of Alabama).
I am sure the tracks I found out here in the Birmingham area are alligator tracks and now I am afraid that someone will hunt him if they knew about him living out here at this pond.

This pond is off a closed road and not too many people know about the pond. No one lives on this land either.

I couldn't find anything about hunting alligators in central Alabama just in southern Alabama.
KC V: you just copied and pasted your answer from outdooralabama.com. It states what I just stated that they have hunts in SOUTHERN Alabama. I am asking if they have hunts in CENTRAL Alabama, you know, Birmingham, Alabama area.
 
Restoration of the American alligator is a national conservation success story in which Alabama played a lead role. Unregulated alligator harvest throughout the South in the 1920s, 30s and 40s threatened the species with extinction. In 1938, Alabama took action and became the first state to protect them. Other states followed our lead and, in 1967, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service placed the American alligator on the Endangered Species List. Two decades of protection enabled the species to rebound. By 1987, it was removed from the Endangered Species List but retained as a federally protected species.

Alligator Hunting Season in Alabama - The alligator hunting season in Alabama is the third and fourth weekends of August in defined areas of Mobile, Baldwin and Barbour counties.
 
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