Besides contracting with professional snake hunters, the FWC launched its now annual Florida Python Challenge in 2013.

The number of Python Challenge participants has fluctuated through the years including a high of nearly 1,600 in 2013. Meet the 2025 winner, Taylor Stanberry.

Donna Kalil, a contract hunter for the South Florida Water Management District, nabbed 56 snakes during the Python Challenge ...

Python hunting is a new territory in the wildlife guiding business, leading adventurous visitors on excursions to find the giant invasive constrictors that have overrun the Everglades.

A Florida woman caught 60 snakes in the state's annual 10-day challenge to eliminate the invasive Burmese python species wreaking havoc with the Everglades ecosystem. More than 900 people ...

Registration has opened for Florida's annual python hunting challenge. The competition is not for the faint of heart.

These hunters are going after the Burmese python — one of the largest species of snakes and a major nuisance to Florida's wildlife.