Track where coyotes have been spotted
Coyote sightings around the state of Florida have become a common occurrence in recent years. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission estimates that about 5,000 sightings have been reported in the past four years alone and each year that number grew. A local news station and a location intelligence company have created an interactive map for residents to use. The map tracks and stores data about coyote sightings in areas all over the state. Residents can use the map to see where coyotes have been reported and if that is close to their residence.
The Florida Python bowl kicked off last week and hundreds and hundreds of hunters showed up in south Florida to help capture and kill some of the invasive species. The event has since ended (on Monday) but there were plenty of stories to share from the time hunters spent in the Everglades. One man had quite a scare when a python began to wrap itself around his body and started to constrict, as pythons do. He was able to get free and continue bagging pythons.
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Find the coyote sightings in your Florida neighborhood
More than 5,000 people statewide have contacted the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation to report coyote sightings over the past four years, including complaints of pets being killed by coyotes.
The number of reports in Central Florida has grown each of those years, state records indicate. With the assistance of Esri, a location intelligence company, News 6 created this interactive map showing where coyote sightings and complaints have occurred throughout Central Florida. See more
Summary: The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission estimates that about 5,000 sightings have been reported in the past four years alone and each year that number grew. A local news station and a location intelligence company have created an interactive map to track sightings.
Find the interactive map here.
Florida python hunters wrestle invasive snakes
Thomas Aycock’s life flashed before his eyes one night in the Everglades as a 4m Burmese python squeezed his arm and a leg in its coils.
Aycock, who was trying to bag the snake by himself, still recalls feeling its tail across his back. “I knew what it was doing, it was going for my throat,” said the 54-year-old Florida Army National Guard major who was able to wrestle free during that incident in the summer of 2018. “I said to myself, ‘It can’t go down like this.'” Read more
Summary: The Florida Python bowl kicked off last week and hundreds and hundreds of hunters showed up in south Florida to help capture and kill some of the invasive species. A few hunters have had scary encounters with the large snakes.
‘It was going for my throat’: Florida python hunters wrestle invasive snakes https://t.co/4jx9tHJ7Z0 pic.twitter.com/JkpkV43EVW
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 17, 2020