The Picayune Strand, once a refuge for the Seminole and Miccosukee Tribes, was heavily logged for cypress in the 1940s and ...

Like other invasive species, including Burmese pythons and green iguanas, it’s legal to humanely kill Nile monitors on private property without a permit, with landowner permission, or on one of 32 ...

Crews are working to contain a large wildfire in South Florida that has burned more than 25,000 acres in Big Cypress National Park.

The Everglades seldom benefit from invasive species. Burmese pythons have unraveled food webs for decades. Green iguanas damage landscapes and infrastructure. But now, as non-native species of apple ...

A record-breaking freeze this month sent Florida wildlife into shock. Some of those animals were native, some were invasive.

Florida incentivizes hunters to eliminate invasive Burmese pythons through programs offering cash rewards. The invasive snakes, numbering in the tens of thousands, disrupt the Everglades ecosystem by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a new year under way the South Florida Water Management Districted (SFWMD) is once again incentivizing Burmese python hunters ...