The Florida Python Challenge is offering $25,000 in cash prizes for 2025 to participating hunters who capture and kill the ...

The annual 10-day competition is held to raise awareness of the Burmese python, an invasive snake, and the damage it has ...

The 2023 Florida Python Challenge is now underway. Participants this year will have the chance to win a share of more than $30,000 in prizes while removing invasive Burmese pythons from the wild.

Burmese pythons have been rampant in South Florida since the 1990s, when they started breeding in the Everglades.

Avid and amateur hunters alike have the unique opportunity to compete for cash prizes as they work to rid the Everglades of ...

When is the 2025 Florida Python Challenge? It begins at 12:01 a.m. on July 11, 2025 and it ends at 5 p.m. on July 20, 2025. This is earlier than in the past when the Challenge had been held in August.

If Floridians are looking for a way to become $10,000 richer, killing pythons may be it. The Florida Python Challenge starts in August and incentivizes hunters to euthanize as many invasive ...

When Burmese python hunters in the annual Florida Python Challenge catch and humanely kill the invasive snake, their job is only partially done. There is a carcass to deal with. Sometimes, a very ...

What are the Florida Python Challenge prize amounts? The first-place winner for the most pythons receives a $2,500 cash prize. Second place wins $750. The longest python grand prize is worth $1,500.

Some of the people participating in the 2025 Florida Python Challenge are likely to be doing the hunt for the first time. "Always catch a python behind the head so it doesn’t bite you," Siewe said.

When is the 2025 Florida Python Challenge? It begins at 12:01 a.m. on July 11, 2025 and it ends at 5 p.m. on July 20, 2025. This is earlier than in the past when the Challenge has been held in August.