Every month the South Florida Water Management District challenges contracted hunters to eliminate as many of the invasive ...

The event now feels like equal parts wildlife management effort, local tradition, and surreal endurance test.

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida, primarily established in the Everglades and South Florida. These snakes ...

Long-term tracking shows a Burmese python is rewriting assumptions about breeding, giving new intel for Florida's battle ...

With a new year under way the South Florida Water Management Districted (SFWMD) is once again incentivizing Burmese python hunters in Florida to eliminate as many of the invasive snakes as they can ...

A python hunter earned multiple cash bonuses in March for capturing the most and longest snakes. The South Florida Water Management District's program pays contractors to remove invasive Burmese ...

Scientists in Florida have found an unexpected tool in the fight against invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades: opossums wearing GPS collars. When a python eats a collared opossum, the tracking ...

New tracking tactic: Scientists found that transmitters on raccoons and opossums can lead them to pythons that have eaten the animals, aiding in snake removal. Ecological stakes: Burmese pythons have ...

Florida's Python Elimination Program pays certified hunters to remove the invasive snakes from the Everglades. Burmese pythons have caused a severe decline in native small mammal populations in South ...

Opossums are becoming Florida's secret weapon against giant invasive pythons-thanks to GPS collars and a wild discovery.