The following contains excerpts from a March 31, 2012, article in the Naples Daily News entitled “The Game Changers.” In past columns, we’ve discussed some names that became legends, easily ...

First detected in South Florida in the early 2000s, the sleek, snake-like fish — likely introduced through live food markets from Southeast Asia — now glide through the Everglades marshes as if they ...

This week, I met up with a new friend on her family's swamp property in the Everglades. We explored the area, hung out with ...

Taylor Stanberry became the first woman to win Florida's annual python challenge last year by catching 60 pythons during the 10-day competition.

Airport-Pulling Road is named for John Pulling Sr., one of Collier County’s most prolific land investors. Pulling bought and sold thousands of acres that now bear names like Lake Park, Seagate, Lely ...

Will the last person leaving “Alligator Alcatraz” please turn out the lights? Let velvet darkness return to this rare "International Dark Sky" park, revealing the beauty of the Milky Way again. Let ...

Scientists warn the eel could be more catastrophic than the Burmese python, causing an "avalanche of prey loss." The eels have caused massive declines in crayfish, small fish, and amphibian ...

A day after a brush fire broke in rural Collier County, not too far away from neighborhoods, helicopters hovered with baskets of water, community members rallied for donations and riding centers ...

Deep in the Florida Everglades, the latest invasive threat to wildlife lies hidden in the marsh, slithering through the water in search of prey and, at times, burying itself in the mud. As a species ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of most remote, rugged and wild preserves in Florida is making national news after the Big Cypress National Preserve caught on ...

One of most remote, rugged and wild preserves in Florida is making national news after the Big Cypress National Preserve caught on fire on Feb. 22. More than 25,000 acres has burned south of ...

A 95-acre brush fire in the Prairie Area in Okeechobee County was 100% contained Saturday less than five hours after it was ignited by a swamp buggy. The fire started at at 1:14 p.m. and it was ...