Florida is letting you join the state’s python battle, soon offering an online program that’ll tell you all about the invasive snakes. The free hourlong session, known as “Python Patrol,” will be ...

Scientist on Burmese pythons: 'removing over 24 tons of python locally feels like a dent to me, but I’m biased.' ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida's python removal team eliminated over 6,300 pounds of Burmese pythons this season, totaling over 40,000 pounds since 2013. The team uses radio telemetry to track ...

A team of python biologists working for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida bounce along in a white four-door truck on a farm road well east of Naples. Ian Bartoszek brings the Ford to a stop, grabs ...

When it comes to the elimination of Burmese pythons, July was a very productive month for hunter Aaron Mann. Mann is the latest winner of the South Florida Water Management District's (SFWMD) python ...

Python hunter Kevin Pavlidis won for the third time in 2025. The competition is sponsored by the South Florida Water ...

OCHOPEE, Fla. — Florida has a job for you if you’ve got what it takes to forage through the Everglades and wrestle a 10-foot Burmese python into submission. The state is at the tail end of its annual ...

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 ...

If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into ...

When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio transmitter, they expected him to lead them to a big female Burmese python. What they found was much ...