Kering in 2013 helped establish the Python Conservation Partnership, with a focus on "improving sustainability, transparency, animal welfare and local livelihoods for the python skin trade." ...

The reptile skin trade is a controversial issue, with some experts saying that harvesting programs help conserve species and provide livelihood benefits, while others say that the trade is fraught ...

Designer Elle Barbeito with a python skin from a 10-foot snake that she and her father caught. She skins the invasive snakes in her father’s Cutler Bay backyard before crafting them into edgy ...

Elle Barbeito: “All the buckles are – I make them with snaps so that they’re interchangeable.” To wallets and handbags, Elle even crafted a python skin bike and lawn and rocking chairs.

The load included 173 bear paws, one python skin and the carcass of a pangolin — a type of sticky-tongued, toothless, nocturnal anteater that is a menu item in southern China.

Could the snake skins serve as a deterrent to would-be egg predators? And why do some birds incorporate bits of litter into their nests?

They placed one or more snake skins in the nest in 40 of the boxes; 20 nest boxes had no snake skin. The results supported the contention that snake skins deter flying squirrels from entering a ...