This week's python hunt aims at Everglades but some slither in Brevard
This week's annual python hunt focuses on the Everglades but some of these invasive snakes slither around in Brevard County.
This week marks an exciting time for Florida as the annual Florida Python Challenge kicks off, inviting residents and visitors to participate in the battle against invasive Burmese pythons . The competition officially began at 12:01 a.m. on July 11 and runs until 5 p.m. on July 20. As the hunt unfolds, it's essential to recognize the ecological threats posed by these slippery invaders ...
Florida Is Paying Participants 25,000 to Hunt Everglades Pythons This ...
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 event is a fun, if high-stakes, competition, it is also serving a very important purpose: protecting one of the state's most vulnerable habitats from destruction. Though the actual event is a month ...
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 event is a fun, if high-stakes, competition, it is also serving a very important purpose: protecting ...
Python challenge
Here are some of the biggest Burmese pythons caught in the Florida Python Challenge annual snake hunt Can you use a gun to kill a python in the Florida Python Challenge?
The primary goal of the hunt is never the body count. It was awareness — of the pythons and not to let other species free in the public — and on that measure it worked. While the public became aware of the python problem nothing anyone tried slowed down their movement through the Everglades .
Nearly 300 invasive pythons removed from South Florida during snake hunt
The 2025 Florida Python Challenge featured 934 participants from 30 states and Canada, who removed 294 invasive Burmese pythons from South Florida, including Everglades National Park. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials say more than 16,000 pythons have been removed since 2017.
Burmese pythons are an invasive species that threaten the Florida ecosystem. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission holds an annual Python Challenge to help control the population.
What it really takes to catch a python
NBC6 spent the night with a veteran hunter during the Florida Python Challenge to see what it really takes to find one of the state's most elusive invasive species.
The winners of the Florida Python Challenge receive a cash prize for hunting the invasive Burmese pythons .