TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) - Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking the legislature to continue funding python removal efforts next year.

During a news conference in South Florida on Tuesday, the governor said a new public-private partnership to remove pythons from the Everglades is overperforming, hitting its goal a year and a half early.

Pythons are an invasive species that can cause damage to the native animals in the state.

DeSantis said the new partnership is a win-win.

“We’re harnessing the incentives of the private to be able to do what I think everybody sees, which is get these Burmese pythons out of the Florida Everglades,” DeSantis said.

The state put $2 million toward the effort in its current budget.

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