The 2024 Florida Python Challenge is now underway. The annual competition aims to rid the Everglades of the Burmese python, an invasive species that poses a threat to the ecosystem. The snake hunt ...

For the animals and plants native to the Florida Everglades, the removal of invasive species like the Burmese python is a tough job that someone’s got to do. But for many military veterans who help ...

The snakes have been officially counted and we have a winner for the 2024 Florida Python Challenge. On Tuesday (Sept. 17) the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced that this year ...

A hunter shooting a gun to kill a python? Forbidden. What about freezing the snake to kill it? Prohibited. A python run over by a car? Not allowed. These types of killings have happened before, though ...

Burmese pythons, a non-native snake, has proliferated across more than a thousand square miles of South Florida.

Dates for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day event aimed at removing invasive Burmese pythons, have been announced ...

A total of 934 participants from 30 states and Canada took part in the annual challenge this year Taylor Stanberry/Instagram A woman has won the 2025 Florida Python Challenge's grand prize after ...

In just over a week, hundreds of python hunters will descend on the Everglades ecosystem in Southern Florida for the state’s annual Python Challenge. Last year 857 participants helped remove 195 ...

A ball python, also called the royal python, is a less troublesome cousin to the Burmese, and has been eating its way through the Everglades for decades. Ball pythons are native to west sub Saharan ...

Python hunters are gearing up for the annual Florida Python Challenge, set to take place in just over a month. However, it's always been open season in the invasive species in the Everglades. Recently ...