With hourly fees and per-snake bonuses, python contractors are helping remove invasive constrictors from the Everglades. Here ...

For now, the annual Florida Python Challenge takes place at eight competition locations in and around the Everglades, including portions of Collier County. This year's hunt is underway. It started at ...

Naples-based Conservancy of Southwest Florida’s python hunters smash records, removing massive invasive snakes to protect fragile Everglades wildlife.

Hunters have caught nearly 1,000 pythons in the many years Florida has offered its signature Python Challenge, where competitors from around the world search for these destructive snakes roaming ...

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Burmese pythons pose a huge threat to native species in the Florida Everglades. Officials have used creative methods to manage the population of invasive snakes.

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A Florida woman caught 60 snakes in the state's annual 10-day challenge to eliminate the invasive Burmese python species wreaking havoc with the Everglades ecosystem. More than 900 people participated ...

First identified in Everglades National Park in 2000, the Burmese python may be the most destructive foreign animal in the park's history. The Southeast Asian apex predator quickly put a stranglehold ...