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 ...

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.

Python hunters should wear long pants, closed-toed shoes, and bring tools like a flashlight and snake hook. Novice hunters must humanely kill pythons immediately at the capture site; firearms are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida's Super Bowl of python hunting, the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, begins Friday, July 10. For 10 days, snake hunters − ...

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 ...