Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation

The state of Florida has added one of the most elusive wetland birds to its endangered and threatened species

A Florida wildlife protection agency says it has broken up a trafficking ring that illegally trapped squirrels and shipped them to Asia

Thursday marks the beginning of stone crab season in Florida, but new rules will be put in place in order to boost the crustacean’s population. Some of the new rules created by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission include shortening the season by two weeks and making the minimum claw size an eighth of an inch larger. Back...

Python removal agents working with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have caught the largest Burmese python yet to be captured in Florida. The 18-foot, 9-inch long snake was captured on October 2nd by Ryan Ausburn and Kevin Pavlidis along the L-28 Tieback Canal about 35 miles west of Miami. The previous record for the longest python caught was…

Water samples taken from Biscayne Bay are expected to be tested by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, after videos showing dozens of dead fish washing ashore have circulated online. According to the Department of Environmental Resource Management, inspectors received tips of dead fish off the Venetian Causeway on Monday and Tuesday. After conducting several tests, the department says they…

Mike Kimmel scours the Everglades looking for Burmese pythons to capture. Kimmel contracts with the South Florida Water Management District’s Python Elimination Program to catch the invasive species and reduce the population of Burmese pythons in the Everglades.

Police are investigating two separate fatal boating accidents in the Florida Keys that happened hours apart on Friday. According to Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, the first accident occurred at around noon on Friday on a Sunset Watersports parasailing ship off Key West. A man and woman were rushed to the hospital. Police say the man later died, while the...

Authorities say an off-duty Florida wildlife officer has been found fatally shot