As 2016 Python Challenge Begins, Wildlife Officers Explain How to Catch Burmese Pythons Edward Mercer, a bearded wildlife technician with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, cracked open a ...

Florida is rolling out a new program to help combat the rise of invasive pythons in the States.According to Independent News, Researchers from University of Florida, have teamed up in August 2025 ...

“Fear is a natural reaction.” That’s what the dangerous-animal expert Jeff Fobb told me stood in the backyard of his house in Homestead, Florida, waiting to tangle with a Burmese python ...

Wildlife officials will try to control the invasive Burmese python with specially designed traps.

Mike Kimmel scours the Everglades looking for Burmese pythons to capture. Kimmel contracts with the South Florida Water Management District’s Python Elimination Program to catch the invasive ...

Knowing how to catch pythons and other large exotic snakes is a fine art that's in increasing demand in South Florida. On a recent day on Big Pine Key, Ron Rozar of the U.S. Geological Survey and ...

Federal wildlife officials will test a new trap designed to capture Burmese pythons. The Burmese pythons have overrun the Florida Everglades because they have no natural predators.

Florida residents used a barbecue grill to trap a 12-foot Burmese python Thursday night in Florida City, police said. The snake was initially spotted in the middle of the road in a gated community ...

Catch a Florida python, win a T-shirt The state has announced the Python Pickup Program, which rewards participants with T-shirts and other prizes if they find and kill a Burmese python in the wild.

Federal wildlife officials alarmed by an infestation of Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades have tried radio tracking collars, a massive public hunt and even snake-sniffing dogs to control ...