The non-native snakes are overrunning Florida and must be eliminated. Fashion designers are determined to make sure their ...

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 hunts for invasive Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades to create sustainable fashion and functional art.

Elle Barbeito’s inspiration for her designs actually comes from Western wear, but always combined with that only-in-Florida feel of the Everglades. Karen Hensel, 7News.

Florida’s surgeon general put an emergency suspension order on the license of Dr. Manuel Barbeito, one of the doctors at General Care Center.

On a muggy summer evening, Elle Barbeito's gaze lands on a blur of grass and cypress trees as she cruises down a dirt road in the Everglades. She pulls her black hair into her teal tie-dye hoodie to ...