Massive Everglades Discovery Drops 120 Invasive Python Eggs Just Before Florida Hunt Begins

A professional python hunter in the Florida Everglades recently stumbled upon what can only be described as the ultimate ...
Orlando Sentinel

Python trapper: The annual Python Challenge does more harm than good | Commentary

The annual Python Challenge, aimed at reducing the invasive Burmese python population in the Florida Everglades, kicked off Aug. 9 and wraps up Aug. 18. It may seem like a well-intentioned effort to ...
WGN Radio

Professional python hunter shares what impact python hunting has on Florida’s eco-system

Professional python hunter Amy Siewe, A.K.A The Python Huntress, joins John Landecker to talk about what being a python hunter entails and why her job is important to the eco-system. Listen in while ...

Do Burmese pythons attack, or even eat, humans? Python Challenge dates

Florida Python Challenge has hunters trying to eliminate invasive Burmese snakes. Do they attack or kill humans? Are they ...
Sun Sentinel

How hard is it to wrestle with a 17-foot invasive Burmese python? Watch a pro to find out

Not many people grab 17-foot pythons by the neck for a living. Matthew Kogo welcomes it. Recently, the environmental educator, who moonlights as a professional python hunter for the Florida Fish and ...
Outside

The Misunderstood Python Hunters Saving the Everglades

Night had fallen over the Everglades, but Donna Kalil kept driving. She leaned out the window of her Ford Expedition as it followed the rutted levee road and peered across the saw grass as far as the ...
Yahoo

A Routine Hunt in the Everglades Turned Into a Record-Breaking Python Capture

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finding a record-challenging clutch of eggs inside the specimen highlights a massive ecological threat to the Everglades ecosystem ...