The FWC's annual Florida Python Challenge will be July 11-20, 2025.

In the Big Cypress National Preserve in South Florida, hunters from the area bagged a 19-foot Burmese python. It was one the biggest ones ever documented. Jake Waleri is a 22-year-old from Naples.

South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash prizes.

Florida incentivizes hunters to eliminate invasive Burmese pythons through programs offering cash rewards. The invasive snakes, numbering in the tens of thousands, disrupt the Everglades ecosystem by ...

Jackson caught the 202-pound snake with the help of his wife, adopted son, and step-daughter Jackson works for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) to prevent pythons from ...

Contracted Burmese python hunter Carl Jackson, his wife, son and daughter, worked together to capture a 202-pound female python (16 feet, 10 inches) on Jan. 13, 2026 in the Everglades. It's the second ...

Three hunters recently captured a massive Burmese python in the Florida Everglades. Zach Hoffman, Jan Gianello and Justice Sargood caught the invasive snake near Everglades City just after midnight on ...

Florida's Python Elimination Program pays certified hunters to remove the invasive snakes from the Everglades. Burmese pythons have caused a severe decline in native small mammal populations in South ...