Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ahead of the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, the Naples Daily News and The News-Press interviewed Zac Chejanovski, the Florida Fish ...

Can you use your firearm while competing in the Florida Python Challenge? Here's what to know before it begins.

Friday is the first day of the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, when avid and amateur hunters alike can compete for cash prizes as they work to rid the Everglades of the ravenous, invasive Burmese ...

Today the dates will be announced for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge. But who can forget 2025 when history was made?

Conservancy of Southwest Florida biologists caught the heaviest Burmese python ever recorded in the Florida Everglades in ...

A total of 934 participants from 30 states and Canada took part in the annual challenge this year A woman has won the 2025 Florida Python Challenge's grand prize after removing 60 invasive snakes from ...

The dates for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge – the annual 10-day hunt for invasive Burmese pythons – were announced today, May 19, with registration now open. The 2026 python hunt will run from ...

EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla. — Snake hunters across Florida are participating in the annual “Python Challenge.” The goal of the 10-day event is to remove invasive Burmese pythons from the state. The ...

The water management district began its landmark python hunting program in 2017. Hunters generally earn an hourly rate of $13.

Registration is open for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition that offers participants a shot at $25,000 in prizes for removing invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades. The ...