PARIS — Kering is applying its sustainability ambitions to the python trade. Amid rising demand for luxury goods made of precious skins, the French group today unveiled plans to back a three ...

Three new reports show the sustainability of python farming and wild harvesting and the trade’s positive impact on local livelihoods ...

Study raises concern over international trade in python skins Geneva, Switzerland, 27th November 2012 —A new study finds that close to half a million python skins are reported as exported annually ...

The evident sustainability of the python trade hints at a larger possibility: that the exploitation of natural resources doesn’t have to lead to their demise. That’s the premise of the BioTrade ...

A center for the trade in blood pythons (Python brongersmai) is the Indonesian province of North Sumatra, where industrial-scale slaughterhouses kill and skin tens of thousands of the snakes ...

Some experts say that wild ball python populations are in rapid decline, and that the trade needs to be better regulated or completely stopped; others say that ball pythons are not currently ...

The billion-dollar global trade in python skins is often illegal and inhumane - and is threatening the survival of some species, says a new report.