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Snake catcher Sarel van der Merwe had a ‘big three metre’ start to the year! He received a phone call for help from a company laying fibre cables in the Munster area. “A Southern African python was ...

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The invasive pythons number in the thousands and have unleashed havoc across more than 1,000 square miles of the Everglades ...

As python hunters head out into the Everglades for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, many of them will feel the bite of the invasive snake.