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 annual Florida Python Challenge is set to begin. Starting at 12:01 a.m. ET July 10 and concluding at 5 p.m. July 19, participants have the chance to win over $25,000 in prizes by removing invasive ...

On the marsh-fringed Gulf Coast where a trio of unhurried rivers slug into Charlotte Harbor, a semi-aquatic invader has settled in, taking advantage of Florida’s natural and man hewn waterways. An ...

Ann Stratton hunting snakes in "The Python Hunter." There’s a particular kind of American optimism that says: Sure, a decades-long ecological catastrophe caused by escaped giant snakes breeding across ...

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 ...

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The invasive Burmese python is wreaking havoc with the ecosystem in southern parts of Florida. The state has enlisted hunters to try to help eradicate the menacing snakes, and the 2026 Python ...

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Brandon Welty eased his airboat named “Python Patrol” onto the rocky edge of a man-made island carved from the spoil of a canal near Everglades Holiday Park. His team was on a mission. A 10-foot ...