One python huntress who won a prize in the 2025 Python Challenge has taken a sabbatical from her corporate job to pursue her passion.

“Invasive pythons are one of the most destructive and harmful species in America’s Everglades,” according to the South Florida Water Management District website. “Their aggressive predation on native ...

A Florida woman has claimed the top prize in the 2025 Python Challenge after capturing 60 Burmese pythons during the 10-day ...

Every year, Florida hosts the "Python Challenge." The 10-day event attracts hunters to the Everglades to help remove the invasive Burmese pythons from the local ecosystem. It is organized by the ...

The state’s wildlife commission hosts the Florida Python Challenge to incentivize people to track down invasive Burmese pythons that thrive in Florida’s preserved wetlands.

Fewer than 20,000 pythons have been removed from the Everglades in 20 years, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. That's because hunting one by one is still the ...

Associated Press HOLEY LAND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA, Fla. (AP) — It’s after midnight when the windshield fogs up on Thomas Aycock’s F-250 pickup truck. He flashes a low smile as he slowly ...

He’s only been hunting pythons since 2012, when a TV show sponsored a python removal competition. Dusty and his friends have taken it upon themselves to save the Everglades.

A Burmese python sits in the grass at Everglades Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 2019. A yearly competition will begin in August for people to hunt and kill the invasive species.

Deer, raccoons, possums, and fox once flocked the area of the Everglades National Park in south Florida.