The South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination Program has been a big success since it started in 2025.

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 ...

Nothing says Florida quite like a state agency-sponsored event where participants can win $10,000 in cash by hunting and capturing invasive pythons slithering through the Everglades. And while the ...

A Florida man was fined for catching an invasive python in Everglades National Park. His case was later dismissed.

Last year, Taylor Stanberry caught 60 Burmese pythons with her bares hands—a state record. But this self-taught hunter says ...

The goal was simple: find a giant Burmese python. For three nights, the search continued deep into the Everglades during the peak hours of 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. The pythons never appeared, but ...

A Florida man was hailed as a hero for catching an 8-foot-long invasive python, and then fined for it. Where is it legal to ...

A new documentary called "The Python Hunt" follows amateur snake hunters during the annual Florida Python Challenge. The film, shot in the Everglades, won a Special Jury Prize at the South by ...

"By engaging the public in science-based invasive species management, we are able to raise awareness and strengthen support for conservation." ...

Florida is once again asking the public to help tackle one of the state's biggest invasive-species problems: Burmese pythons in the Everglades. The 10-day Florida Python Challenge returns July 10, ...

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 ...

‘The Python Hunt’ takes viewers deep inside the annual Everglades tradition — and what it really means for Florida. Anne Stratton Hilt and Toby Benoit star in "The Python Hunt," a 2026 documentary ...