Earlier this year, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida passed an astonishing milesone: The nonprofit announced it had taken 20 tons of pythons out of the western Everglade – the rough equivalent of a ...

As many as 300 Burmese pythons were removed during a record-setting Florida Python Challenge this year, state wildlife officials told NBC. The 10-day competition that ran from July 11-20 resulted in a ...

Florida couple Christina Kraus and Aaron Mann captured 87 invasive pythons from the Everglades in July, setting that month’s record and netting them thousands of dollars in payouts for helping remove ...

748 pythons removed in record-breaking capture from Florida’s Everglades The 2025 Florida Python Challenge had 934 participants from 30 states and Canada, removing 294 pythons—the most in its history.

Floridians could be see cooler weather in time for the holidays later this month. However, could it be deadly for invasive ...

Mario Ramos was named the September winner of the South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination Program. Ramos captured 34 invasive Burmese pythons, earning a $1,000 bonus. A total of ...

FORTUNATELY, NOBODY WAS INJURED. CONTROLLING THE PYTHON POPULATION HERE IN FLORIDA, GOVERNOR DESANTIS SPOKE IN STUART TODAY ABOUT SOME NEW ACTIONS THE STATE PLANS TO TAKE TO CONTROL THE GROWTH OF ...

A 15-foot Burmese python was caught swallowing a “full-sized” deer in Southwest Florida, proving the invasive apex predators are ambushing and eating bigger prey. The python was 115 pounds and the ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Over 200 invasive Burmese pythons were removed from south Florida this year during the 2022 Florida Python Challenge, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...

Burmese pythons, a non-native snake, has proliferated across more than a thousand square miles of South Florida.

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in South Florida, negatively impacting native wildlife and ecosystems. State and federal programs pay contracted hunters to find and remove the invasive snakes ...

It was about 2 in the morning when Claudilio Cruz, a member of a road crew spreading asphalt on U.S. 1 in the affluent Miami suburb of Pinecrest, heard frantic honking. When he looked up he was ...