Illegally traded python skins worth $1 billion (€720 million) are being imported into Europe every year as weak regulation fails to stop illicit traders capitalising on demand for the ...

The global trade in python skin is often illegal, and those who want the real deal should be especially careful when sourcing, on both legal and ethical grounds.

Pythons are bashed with hammers, impaled on hooks and skinned alive to provide skins used by French luxury brand Gucci, according to PETA.

The billion-dollar global trade in python skins is often illegal and inhumane - and is threatening the survival of some species, says a new report.

Animal rights group PETA says luxury brand Gucci is supplied by factory farms that skin still-moving pythons for their hides.

An 'influential' Instagram star who admitted importing and selling fashion accessories made of endangered python skin has been warned she could face up to seven years in jail. Rich kid Stephanie ...

It is fairly easy to humanely kill a Burmese python one you have one in your grip. But identifying the invasive snake in the wild is another story.

Nairobians at a court’s public gallery were taken aback when police turned up with a filthy polythene bag. The black plastic bag contained python skins.