TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — Governor Ron DeSantis shared the spotlight Tuesday with an 11-foot Burmese python, making it clear the fight to protect the Everglades from invasive species only continues.

With some help from his family, python contractor Carl Jackson caught the second-heaviest Burmese python ever captured in the ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke on the historic success of removing nearly 300 invasive pythons in the 2025 Florida Python Challenge. The non-Florida native Burmese Python preys on native mammals, birds and ...

The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earlier this year, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida passed an astonishing milesone: The nonprofit announced it had taken 20 ...

Read full article: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks in West Palm Beach STUART, Fla. – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference in Stuart on Tuesday where he outlined the state’s efforts to ...

A total of 294 Burmese pythons were eliminated during the 2025 Florida Python Challenge – the most of any python challenge since the event started in 2013. But only one snake by a hunter was declared ...

FORTUNATELY, NOBODY WAS INJURED. CONTROLLING THE PYTHON POPULATION HERE IN FLORIDA, GOVERNOR DESANTIS SPOKE IN STUART TODAY ABOUT SOME NEW ACTIONS THE STATE PLANS TO TAKE TO CONTROL THE GROWTH OF ...

It was the catch of a lifetime. For contracted python hunter Carl Jackson, wrangling a near record python earlier this year (Jan. 13) was likely satisfying in more ways than one. First, his struggle ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida has removed 20 tons of Burmese pythons from the western Everglades since 2013. The invasive pythons have decimated native wildlife, with at least 85 species ...