The annual 10-day competition is held to raise awareness of the Burmese python, an invasive snake, and the damage it has inflicted on the Everglades.

FWC said this time of year is ideal for holding the Python Challenge because hatchlings are emerging from eggs.

The Florida Python Challenge is offering $25,000 in cash prizes for 2025 to participating hunters who capture and kill the ...

This year's Florida Python Challenge is scheduled to start July 11 at 12:01 a.m. It ends at 5 p.m. July 20. Participants can win more than $25,000 in prizes as they remove invasive Burmese pythons ...

US says it’s ‘likely impossible’ to eradicate invasive Burmese python population By . Greg Wehner, Fox News. Published March 20, 2023. Updated March 20, 2023, 9:33 p.m. ET.

However, conservative estimates by the USGS put the Burmese python population in the Florida Everglades region in the tens of thousands. Where, how far north in Florida are Burmese pythons found?

Florida Fish and Wildlife officials along with community members spent Thursday morning discussing how to tackle the invasive Burmese python population in Florida. "We have a problem with pythons ...