The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on Thursday signed off on banning the sale, ownership and breeding of tegus, iguanas and other invasive reptiles that have overrun native wildlife ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is hosting events to help tegu and green iguana owners get their pets microchipped before July 28. After that date, owners would be breaking ...

Over 1,500 tegu lizards have been reported or caught in St. Lucie County. St. Lucie County man is Florida's top tegu trapper. Tegus eat alligator eggs and juvenile gopher tortoises. St. Lucie County ...

Wildlife managers in Florida are finally moving to address an existential question: If the state is like an all-you-can eat buffet for invasive reptiles originally introduced as exotic pets, then why ...

Green iguanas and Argentine black and white tegus are invasive species in Florida. The government wants to monitor 16 species with this new initiative, but overall there are 500 nonnative, invasive ...

Owners of pet Argentine tegus and green iguanas must legalize their lizards beginning this week as new rules in Florida’s belated but stalwart battle against invasive species take effect. Approved in ...

The rule allows for current tegu and green iguana pet owners to keep their animals with a no-cost permit requiring compliance of new regulations, but they will not be able to replace the animal once ...

South Florida’s iguana infestation problem is so severe that state officials have declared open season on the non-native invasive species all year long – no permit is needed to kill the animal. But a ...

Some North Floridians surely feel they are missing out on something really neat by not having torporous iguanas falling out of trees. Or pythons as long as a minivan slithering around, for that matter ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) - Sid Pennington has decided to spend his retirement trapping invasive lizards threatening native wildlife in his community. Pennington, 60, has singlehandedly captured at least ...

South Florida’s iguana infestation problem is so severe that state officials have declared open season on the nonnative invasive species all year long — no permit is needed to kill the animal. But a ...