Python hunting in Florida, by contrast, is structured around control rather than harvest. As per BBC, state-hired contractors, like Amy Siewe, who is now very famous on social media, earn around ...

The Florida Python Challenge 2025 is in full swing. The annual snake hunt started at 12:01 a.m. July 11. It will end at 5 p.m. July 20. Participants have until July 20 to kill as many Burmese ...

Registration opened May 15 for this year’s challenge, which begins July 11 at 12:01 a.m. and runs through 5 p.m. July 20. The water management district began its landmark python hunting program ...

A group of python hunters caught the longest Burmese python ever measured on July 10, 2023, in the Big Cypress National Preserve in eastern Collier County. The monster snake was 19 feet long.

Lord spends his time living between the Florida Keys and Arkansas studying Burmese pythons. The work required Lord to haul live pythons in his Subaru for 21 hours up to the lab in Arkansas — after ...

While python hunting has grown in visibility thanks to Serpent Invasion, Guardians of the Glades, and influencers like Amy Siewe, it still doesn’t match the scale, reach, or financial ecosystem ...

People travel from far and wide to the Florida Python Challenge. They camp in tents, RVs, to catch one of these elusive slithering Burmese pythons.