The News-Press and Naples Daily News recently caught up with Amy Siewe, famously known as the Python Huntress. Siewe recently gave a lecture at J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel.

It was a chilly December day when Ian Bartoszek and a team of other biologists hiked into the wilderness outside Naples to track pythons. They were homing in on Loki, a 13-foot, 52-pound male. But ...

The bird and carpet python were 'literally touching noses' when a professional arrived to remove the snake, per Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers A professional snake catcher intercepted a close call, ...

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge, co-hosted by the FWC and the South Florida Water Management District, concluded on July 20th. Over 900 hunters from the U.S. and Canada participated in the 10-day ...

Burmese pythons, an invasive species in the Everglades, are being hunted and their skins used for luxury goods. Hunters like Zach Hoffman and Amy Siewe detail the process of skinning and preparing ...

'Anytime you catch something bigger than 14 feet, it’s not a snake anymore, it’s a monster,' said Donna Kalil, a licensed Florida python hunter. Mike Kimmel goes by the social media moniker Python ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A winner was announced Tuesday in Florida’s annual Python Challenge, a competition that tasks hunters with removing invasive Burmese pythons from south Florida. This year’s ...

Researchers are tracking pythons with accelerometers to learn how they move and eat. Burmese pythons are connected with a 90% decrease in mammals in the Florida Everglades. Conservationists use ...

More than 20 tons of Burmese python have now been pulled from the wilds of Southwest Florida by one of the region’s most enduring and effective science teams. In early June, the Conservancy of ...