A Florida woman caught 60 snakes in the state's annual 10-day challenge to eliminate the invasive Burmese python species wreaking havoc with the Everglades ecosystem. More than 900 people ...

But this has barely made a dent in Florida's python population. Besides contracting with professional snake hunters, the FWC launched its now annual Florida Python Challenge in 2013.

Registration has opened for Florida's annual python hunting challenge. The competition is not for the faint of heart.

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The dates for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge are set. Take a look at the longest and heaviest Burmese pythons ever caught in the Sunshine State.

A former contractor with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's python program writes that a lack of enforcement and education is failing to set up python hunters for success.

The contest brings together amateur and professional snake-catchers to hunt within certain ... which is noted in a more than 100-page 2023 report that summarized decades of python research. More than ...

Florida is looking for snake hunters.McKayla Spencer, of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), holds a Burmese python at a media event where Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ...

Python hunter Amy Siewe caught this nearly 12-foot python in August 2023. Invasive Burmese pythons have ravaged native wildlife in Florida, and so far, the most effective solution is hunting them.

Florida also pays professional python hunters to wade through the glades, some using infrared cameras or python-sniffing dogs to seek out their quarry.