The annual event to combat the invasive Burmese python begins Friday in multiple locations, including the Everglades where it ...

More than 6,300 pounds of Burmese python were tracked and removed by the team, which has removed more than 40,000 pounds of invasive snake across a 200-square-mile area since 2013.

More than 6,300 pounds of Burmese python were tracked and removed by the team, which has removed more than 40,000 pounds of invasive snake across a 200-square-mile area since 2013.

Based in Naples, the program includes biologists, interns and volunteers who use radio telemetry to track male "scout" snakes, which basically go out and find breeding-sized females. Since its ...

Based in Naples, the program includes biologists, interns and volunteers who use radio telemetry to track male "scout" snakes, which basically go out and find breeding-sized females. Since its ...

Finding them is key to keeping the python population in check. In just over a decade, the Conservancy says it's culled 20 tons of python from a 200-square-mile area of the Everglades.

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida announced Monday the record-breaking removal of 6,300 pounds of these invasive snakes in five months.

What's startling is those 1,400 snakes didn't come from a statewide culling. They came from a 200-square-mile area in southwestern Florida, the Conservancy reports.

A conservation group in South Florida that’s working to reign in the state’s Burmese python problem announced a new milestone in those efforts Monday. After more than a decade of intensive efforts, ...