Burmese Python Florida Everglades Map

Bivittatus kuhl 1820.

Burmese python florida everglades map. An american alligator in its natural habitat in the florida everglades. Since then the number of python sightings has. Hunters capturing invasive burmese pythons in florida everglades hit a milestone by removing 5 000 snakes within the program. While florida s unique burmese python hunts have taken on a disneyesque air with the hype of this year s showy python bowl and the likes of rocker ozzy osbourne and celebrity chef gordon.

It was first introduced to the area thanks in part to hurricane andrew in 1992. Distribution maps species information tools training my eddmaps about siipa burmese python python molurus ssp. Login to download data. Starting in the 1980s the swamps of the south florida everglades have been overrun by one of the most damaging invasive species the region has ever seen.

A number of burmese pythons have been found in the florida keys but there is not yet confirmation of a breeding population in the keys. Burmese pythons have been know to prey on alligators in the area. The program surprisingly has eliminated nearly 4 000 pythons in the wild but this does not compare to th eir population still residing in the everglades. Burmese pythons are established in the park due to accidental or intentional release of captive pet animals.

This species is introduced in the united states. In 2017 the sfwmd and the florida fish and wildlife conservation commission announced the python elimination program where people are hired to hunt for pythons in the swamps of south florida. Download data to download a subset. This invasive creature is what is known as a burmese python and it s a predator that has been in the florida everglades for decades.

Burmese pythons python bivittatus are native to southeast asia however since the end of the 20th century they have become an established breeding population in south florida although burmese pythons were first sighted in everglades national park in the 1990s they were not officially recognized as a reproducing population until 2000. The burmese python is now distributed across more than a thousand square miles of southern florida including all of everglades national park and areas to the north including big cypress national preserve and collier seminole state forest. Despite all the attention on these snakes park visitors are unlikely to see a python in the wild. The large snake has disrupted the ecosystem preying on animals native.

The burmese python is the best known and most problematic of these snakes.