The Florida Python Challenge 2025 is in full swing. The annual snake hunt started at 12:01 a.m. July 11. It will end at 5 p.m. July 20. Participants have until July 20 to kill as many Burmese ...

Following the conclusion of its annual Python Hunting Challenge, which allows hunters to kill thousands of the invasive ...

Python hunting is a new territory in the wildlife guiding business, leading adventurous visitors on excursions to find the giant invasive constrictors that have overrun the Everglades.

Officials estimate that pythons have killed 95% of small mammals as well as thousands of birds in Everglades National Park ...

The annual Florida Python Challenge is back. The event offers hunters from across the country the chance to win a $10,000 Ultimate Grand Prize for removing the most invasive Burmese pythons from ...

"Every python removed is one less python to harm our native species." Man wins thousands after capturing and removing ...

There are additional prizes for the longest python in each category. Each python must be dead, with hunters facing disqualification if they kill them inhumanely or kill a native snake.

South Florida is home to two particularly problematic invasive species: Burmese pythons and green iguanas. The pythons live ...

Challengers must capture and humanely kill the pythons and not harm any native species ... Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. She said she has been hunting pythons for 10 years but ...

Version 2.0 of the study will add bunny scent to the stuffed rabbits if motion and heat aren’t enough to fool the pythons in ...

The python's head was as big as a garden spade, lunging at hunter once, twice, before sinking its recurved teeth into his arm.

Late last year, the state of Florida announced it would host a first-ever Python Challenge, a month-long contest in which participants are encouraged to patrol public hunting lands and kill non ...