The 2026 Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day event for professionals and amateurs to hunt invasive Burmese pythons. The event aims to reduce the python population, raise awareness, and protect the ...

The 2026 Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition to remove invasive snakes, has concluded. Hunters competed for $25,000 in cash prizes, including a $10,000 grand prize for removing the most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida's Super Bowl of python hunting, the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, begins Friday, July 10. For 10 days, snake hunters − ...

Last year’s winner was Taylor Stanberry, who removed 60 Burmese pythons in the record-breaking 2025 event Bailey Richards is a Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and ...

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition to raise awareness and control the population of invasive pythons. The 10-day event in 2026 runs from July 10 to July 19 in several wildlife ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA )— Participants can now have the opportunity to win big as the 2026 Florida Python Challenge kicks off on Friday. Registration to compete and have the opportunity to win a share of ...

The first day of 2026 Florida Python Challenge kicked off at midnight Friday, and now avid and amateur hunters alike can compete for cash prizes as they work to rid the Everglades of the ravenous, ...

EVERGLADES CITY, Fla. — The hunt is on for one of the Florida Everglades' most invasive species, the Burmese Python! Florida's Python Challenge began early Friday morning and will run through 5 p.m.

The event offers a $10,000 grand prize to whoever removes the most Burmese pythons from the Everglades The annual challenge is a state effort to decrease the number of Burmese pythons in the ...