Florida Officials Warn Residents About Dangerous Invasive Reptile in the State, and It's Not a Python or Iguana

Wildlife officials urge residents not to approach the lizard and to report sightings immediately ...

South Florida’s Newest Invasive Threat Is a 6-Foot-Long Lizard from Africa

For invasive reptile hunters in Florida, there’s another predatory lizard on the radar. Nile monitors, native to Africa, are populating parts of the Sunshine State, and they can now be killed ...
Miami New Times

Did South Florida Just Gain an Invasive Species? Meet the Nile Monitor

Like other invasive species, including Burmese pythons and green iguanas, it’s legal to humanely kill Nile monitors on private property without a permit, with landowner permission, or on one of 32 ...
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South Florida wildlife officials warn six-foot African lizards are expanding into new areas

Nile monitors are spreading through canals, stressing native nests. Florida expands removal rules and urges fast sighting ...
Outdoor Life

South Florida’s Newest Invasive Threat Is a 6-Foot-Long Lizard from Africa

For invasive reptile hunters in Florida, there’s another predatory lizard on the radar. Nile monitors, native to Africa, are populating parts of the Sunshine State, and they can now be killed ...

Nile Monitors Are The Next Major Invasive Species Threat Taking Over Florida

The state of Florida's 'Dirty Dozen' invasive species list recently got an update, adding three new species to the list and remove three that pose less of ...