Want to hunt Burmese pythons in Florida? Dates for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge — a ten-day event to remove invasive Burmese pythons from South Florida — are set. Burmese pythons wreak havoc on ...

Ahead of the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, the Naples Daily News and The News-Press interviewed Zac Chejanovski, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Python Management Coordinator.

Get ready … get ssssSSSssssSSsssset … GO! The Florida Python Challenge will kick off at midnight on Friday, Aug. 9, with hundreds of hunters setting off into the ...

The Florida Python Challenge may have just ended, but one hunter already has her sights set on next year. "I set a goal to catch over 1,000 pythons, and I am very close to that right now," Donna Kalil ...

The 2024 Florida Python Challenge has concluded, and we have a winner. On Tuesday, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced the final results and winner of the 10-day ...

The annual Florida Python Challenge starts on Friday at 12:01 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m. on Aug, 18. Participants can win more than $25,000 in prizes as they remove invasive Burmese pythons from South ...

Veteran python hunter Donna Kalil was optimistic this year she would take home the $10,000 grand prize in the 2024 Florida Python Challenge. Kalil, a contract hunter with the South Florida Water ...

The 2022 Florida Python Challenge culled a total of 231 of the invasive snakes from South Florida. Close to 1,000 participants from 32 states and as far away as Canada and Latvia fanned out across the ...

Professional snake removal experts captured a 30-pound, 6½-foot Burmese python from a Miami-Dade residential area, preventing potential danger to pets and children.

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge, a competition to remove invasive Burmese pythons, runs from July 11 to 20. The challenge aims to raise public awareness and encourage reporting of python sightings.