Help wanted: Full-time python hunters get paid for eliminating snakes

The invasive pythons number in the thousands and have unleashed havoc across more than 1,000 square miles of the Everglades ...
Saints Wire

'Just icky'. Florida hunter cracks open a python egg on video

Professional python hunter Amy Siewe recently posted a video on her Facebook page showing her cutting open a snake's egg to ...

Python hunters captured 8,000 pounds of snake. Meet their leader

A team of Burmese python hunters caught a record breaking 8,000 pounds in snake this season. Meet the man leading the crusade ...

Python egg hunt: Florida elimination program adds new reward category

The South Florida Water Management District is now rewarding hunters for removing python eggs and active nests from the landscape.

U.S. Zoo Releases Over a Dozen Rare Snakes Into the Wild

The Audubon Zoo, located in New Orleans, released a group of non-venomous Louisiana pine snakes into the Kisatchie National Forest ...

Biologists use 'scout snakes' to pull record 177 pythons, 4,100 eggs from the Everglades

Biologists in South Florida ended the latest Everglades breeding season with a record-setting round of Burmese python ...

42 Eastern Indigo Snakes, the Longest Snakes in the U.S., Intentionally Released in 2 States

The snakes are classified federally as a threatened species ...
USA Today

Scientist sounds alert over Burmese python predations in Naples

Ian Bartoszek may know more about Burmese pythons than anyone who has ever walked Earth. Program director for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida's world-renowned Burmese python capture and removal ...

Conservation team removes four tons of large, invasive snakes, breaks record

Florida is home to all sorts of diverse wildlife, beautiful shores and animal-filled ecosystems, but it also has a snake ...