Steve Maugeri joined the CBS News Miami team in April 2024. Steve has always loved the beach and is excited to live this close to the ocean within a major city as well! EVERGLADES - Those ...

Florida's annual effort to tackle one of the world's most notorious invasive species is returning this July, but wildlife ...

From Florida pythons to feral hogs in farm country, paying hunters to remove invasive animals is changing the politics of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With another Florida Python Challenge underway, hunters who end up finding the invasive snake have a good chance of getting bitten ...

For the animals and plants native to the Florida Everglades, the removal of invasive species like the Burmese python is a tough job that someone’s got to do. But for many military veterans who help ...

A total of 934 participants from 30 states and Canada took part in the annual challenge this year Taylor Stanberry/Instagram A woman has won the 2025 Florida Python Challenge's grand prize after ...

Sergio Candido is the managing editor for the South region at cbsnews.com, coordinating multiplatform news coverage for CBS Miami, CBS Texas and CBS Atlanta. He previously worked for outlets including ...

Florida's annual python challenge awards hunters who capture the invasive snakes from the wild. A decade later, it's done little to reduce the impact of the species on the Everglades ecosystem. There ...

The Everglades is filled with pythons. And last week, 950 hunters tried to kill them. The python challenge is a state-sponsored hunt for one of Florida's biggest invasive headaches, the Burmese python ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the animals and plants native to the Florida Everglades, the removal of invasive species like the Burmese python is a tough ...