The Florida Python Challenge is held annually to raise awareness of Burmese pythons, an invasive snake, and the damage it has inflicted on the Everglades.

What is a ball python? And why isn't this 'nice cousin' to the Burmese hunted during the Florida Python Challenge? We explain the details.

The winners of the Florida Python Challenge receive a cash prize for hunting the invasive Burmese pythons.

Florida Python Challenge: The removal competition allows hunters to capture pythons without the traditional permits from July 11-20, 2025. Online training is required.

Florida Python Challenge: The removal competition allows hunters to capture pythons without the traditional permits from July 11-20, 2025. Online training is required.

Over the course of this year’s 10-day competition, Florida Python Challenge™ participants removed 195 invasive Burmese #pythons from the Everglades ecosystem! The big prize winner this year?

In recent years, Florida has taken aggressive steps to reduce the python population in the Everglades, including incentivized removal efforts such as the 2024 Florida Python Challenge.

The Burmese python, a non native species to Florida, was first recorded in the Sunshine State in the 1990s. Its exact population size is unclear.

The Florida Python Challenge allows Floridians to participate firsthand in Everglades conservation, win prizes and protect the Everglades from the invasive Burmese Python.

To help control the population, the state even holds an annual 10-day challenge to control the species, known as the Florida Python Challenge. The goal for participants is to bag the most Burmese ...

The solar-powered rabbits were let loose into the Everglades shortly after the annual Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition that draws hundreds of eager snake wranglers to hunt the ...

We’re talking about the annual Florida Python Challenge: a 10-day-long hunt with a five-figure cash prize for whoever bags the longest snake, or the so-called “ scout snakes ”, male pythons ...