Invasive Species

Reptile owners and vendors affected by an addition to Florida’s prohibited species list are filing a petition to challenge the decision.

Lionfish were first reported off Florida’s Atlantic Coast back in 1985. And since the mid 2000s, the number being reported has increased rapidly, and…

A recent study by scientists with the University of Florida and the U.S. Geological Survey finds that Burmese pythons may be foraging on wading bird…

A Southwest Florida woman has been ridding cane toads from home yards and communities across the region.35-year-old Jennifer Southall, an invasive species…

Florida is home to more than 500 invasive species. Not all of these plants and animals are big and scary like pythons, but they can still harm the state...

Burmese pythons, the voracious invader of the Everglades blamed for wiping out small mammals, may now be feasting another marsh resident: wading birds....

In the Florida Everglades, a team of invasive species researchers got more than it bargained for – a 17-foot-long python, plus 73 developing python eggs...

South Florida is experiencing an infestation of poisonous Bufo toads, also known as Cane toads. These creatures are not native to South Florida but were...

Florida has the most invasive species of any state in the country, and half of the insects, reptiles, arachnids and crustaceans imported into the United…

Officials say a Florida trapper has captured a record-setting python as part of a program to remove the invasive species from the Everglades.