The South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash prizes.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — 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 ...

With help from his wife and kids, who prevented the snake from squeezing him to death, Carl Jackson wrangled the second-heaviest Burmese python ever caught in the state ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke on the historic success of removing nearly 300 invasive pythons in the 2025 Florida Python Challenge. The non-Florida native Burmese Python preys on native mammals, birds and ...

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 ...

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the giant invasive snakes out of their ...

Florida has deployed a new weapon in the Everglades’ ongoing crusade against the invasive and prolifically deadly Burmese python: an army of robot rabbits. Stanberry claimed $10,000, FWC’s top prize ...

Florida incentivizes hunters to eliminate invasive Burmese pythons through programs offering cash rewards. The invasive snakes, numbering in the tens of thousands, disrupt the Everglades ecosystem by ...