The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood ...

Invasive species are among the most significant threats to the United States’ native wildlife, biodiversity, and fragile ecosystems. Defined as non-native organisms that cause environmental, economic, ...

National Invasive Species Awareness Week 2026 occurs between February 23 and February 27, 2026. Invasive species are ...

Professional python hunter needed his family’s help to wrest the second-heaviest invasive Burmese python on record out of the ...

As we begin a new year, the invasion of Burmese pythons in Florida and efforts to eliminate the invasive snake continues to be a top priority for wildlife experts throughout the region. CROW, the ...

MIAMI, Fla. (WFLA) — A first responder who specializes in catching invasive Burmese pythons had a busy week wrangling the reptiles in Miami-Dade County. Lt. Jolie Vandervlught with Miami-Dade Fire ...

Cozy climate and other factors align in Florida to make the state Earth’s playground for the most established, invasive reptile and amphibian species.

Two long-abandoned military buildings in the Florida Keys that were once used as missile shelters were recently found to be housing another inhabitant – invasive and damaging Burmese pythons. The U.S.

Volunteer members of the "Swamp Apes" patrol through Florida's Everglades National Park searching for invasive pythons in the Chekika area of the park on Saturday Oct. 4, 2014. In the foreground is ...