FWC, South Florida Water Management District host 10-day competition with $25,000 in prizes.

Python hunters in Florida will begin competing in the state’s annual removal competition one minute after the clock strikes midnight on Friday.

The Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day competitive hunt created by the FWC to encourage participants to remove pythons from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The dates for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge – the annual 10-day hunt for invasive Burmese pythons – were announced today, May ...

The annual Florida Python Challenge begins Friday, giving snake hunters 10 days to remove as many invasive Burmese pythons as possible from the Everglades for a chance at cash prizes. The 2026 ...

The News-Press and Naples Daily News asked Kodiak Hengstebeck of the FWC 10 questions about this year's Python Challenge.

The Florida Python Challenge is returning. The start of the annual event — which offers hunters far and wide the chance to compete for prizes for removing the titular invasive species, Burmese pythons ...

This 13-foot-long Burmese python was used to demonstrate safe-handling techniques during the kick off for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission's 2013 Python Challenge in Davie, Fla. Burmese ...