Python Cowboy is pioneering python hunting and iguana hunting in Florida—helping remove invasive species from our local Florida ecosystem.
I do as I'm told, knowing the cameras are rolling and that I'm with a bunch of guys so macho they don't even wear bug spray in the Florida Everglades, which has only recently become a garden of Eden for pythons, but has always been skeeter heaven (I, of course, had applied liber...
When the program began, Hargrove told The Associated Press he hated having to kill the pythons, but he wanted to help save wildlife in the beleaguered Everglades. On Tuesday, he said he still tries to avoid hunting alone. “I like to hunt with a friend because if we are successful, I ...
Since python hunting is not the kind of activity one should pursue uninsured, Rahill prefers the Swamp Apes work as volunteers in the Everglades National Park, where they are protected by the federal government’s insurance if there is an accident or injury. Rahill, himself a licensed python co...
Habitat depletion, continued demand for Burmese pythons in the pet trade, and hunting for their skins and flesh have landed these graceful giants on the threatened species list. 1:49 WATCH: Serpent King The Burmese python is over-populating the Florida Everglades and challenges an American alligato...
(estimates from credible sources start at 10,000 pythons and increase from there) is spread across several thousand square kilometers of the Everglades and adjacent ecosystems,10,11and these exotic snakes consume a variety of vertebrates suchas mammals (including domestic pets), reptiles, and birds...
This expands their dinner options to some of the biggest animals, like whitetail deer in the Everglades. One of the reasons pythons eat large prey has to do with their size. Pythons have big bulky bodies, and the more food they consume, the more energy they have to survive. The ability...
Since you have signed up to receive information about upcoming hunting and fishing activities with the FWC, we thought you may be interested in learning more about the 2016 Python ChallengeTM. This coming year, with the help of our partners, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...
Burmese pythons are listed as a vulnerable species, threatened by exotic pet trade; hunting for their skin and food; and a decline in habitat quality. Florida’s wetland Everglades, in the United States, saw the introduction of Burmese pythons around the 1980s, which have since become invasive...
Burmese pythons have hunted most small mammals in the Everglades to catastrophic population declines because they’re a large predator that species in the environment aren’t adapted to. In addition, research has shown pythons in Florida are hybrids that also contain rock python DNA, this further ...