Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference on Tuesday in Stuart to announce record progress in the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Python Action Team – Removing Invasive Constrictors (PATRIC) program.

The program, which began in 2017, has removed a record-setting number of invasive Burmese Pythons from Florida’s Everglades, in part because of a new partnership with Miami-based company Inversa.

“FWC’s partnership with Inversa has supercharged the removal of invasive Burmese Pythons from the Everglades,” DeSantis said. “The new program accomplished more removals in July 2025 alone than in the entire year before."

The FWC’s goal was to increase the number of python removals by three times in years, but with Inversa’s technology, PATRIC has already delivered on its Year 2

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