Like other invasive species, including Burmese pythons and green iguanas, it’s legal to humanely kill Nile monitors on private property without a permit, with landowner permission, or on one of 32 ...

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

A Sydney man has been handed a hefty fine for ripping ‘sacred’ green tree pythons from a Cape national park with a magistrate slamming his crime as being “deeply disrespectful” toward the environment ...

The court heard Clinton Spiteri was with two others when he visited a rainforest in the Cape York area to steal eight snakes.

The bird species has long ridden dramatic population swings. About 3,000 snail kites lived in Florida in 2001, but a severe drought that year devastated the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee, cutting the ...

The Everglades seldom benefit from invasive species. Burmese pythons have unraveled food webs for decades. Green iguanas damage landscapes and infrastructure. But now, as non-native species of apple ...

Recent cold weather in Florida has caused invasive green iguanas to die and fall from trees as they decay. Iguanas, which are not native to Florida, can become paralyzed when temperatures fall below ...

Abstract: Tree species classification plays a fundamental role in detailed forest resource surveys. The high density point cloud data obtained from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Light Detection and ...

near “threatened” snakes from an eastern Cape York national park. Eight snakes, allegedly unlawfully taken from their natural habitat near Lockhart River, were discovered after a tip-off led to a ...