The state is offering a free “Python Patrol” course to learn how to identify, catch and humanely kill pythons.

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

In the months ahead, biologists monitoring the snakes will be back again and again as they struggle to crack the code in building a better python trap.

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 ...

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

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 ...