NEW YORK — Pythons are bashed with hammers, impaled on hooks and skinned alive to provide skins used by French luxury brand Gucci to craft handbags, shoes and belts that sell for hundreds if not ...

Nairobians at a court’s public gallery were taken aback when police turned up with a filthy polythene bag. The black plastic bag contained python skins. The skins were evidence in a case in which a ...

Note to readers: The Naples Daily News and News-Press are asking experts questions about Burmese Pythons in 2024. The invasive python is wreaking havoc with the ecosystem in southern parts of Florida.

A handbag designer was sentenced to 18 months in prison for importing bags made of rare skins. The bags were made from caiman and python skin, both protected under international trade laws. Nancy ...

Trading in the crocodile, alligator, lizard and python skins often used to make watch straps involves a labyrinthine process of documentation. By Rachel Felder In July, People for the Ethical ...

Burmese pythons, an invasive species in the Everglades, are being hunted and their skins used for luxury goods. Hunters like Zach Hoffman and Amy Siewe detail the process of skinning and preparing ...

Nairobians at a court’s public gallery were taken aback when police turned up with a filthy polythene bag. The black plastic bag contained python skins. The skins were evidence in a case in which a ...

Donna Kalil, 60, of Kendall, Fla., a python removal agent contracted by the South Florida Water Management District, with an 8.5-foot python she caught west of Miami. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles ...

A Florida craftsman has come up with a novel way of tackling both the coronavirus pandemic and the problem of invasive pythons and iguanas that damage the state's fragile ecosystem. Brian Woods, the ...

On a muggy summer evening, Elle Barbeito's gaze lands on a blur of grass and cypress trees as she cruises down a dirt road in the Everglades. She pulls her black hair into her teal tie-dye hoodie to ...