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Besides contracting with professional snake hunters, the FWC launched its now annual Florida Python Challenge in 2013. During that first four-week challenge, the snake hunters competed to capture ...
Last year's hunt caught 209 snakes. The prize was $10,000. ... Today, there are no reliable estimates of python abundance in Florida, the 2023 report says.
The ten-day annual Florida snake hunt is now underway. Here's what to know before slithering over to the Everglades. Everything to know: Florida Python Challenge, the snake hunt with a cult-like ...
Burmese pythons were introduced to Florida in the 1970s as part of the exotic pet trade. Many owners who found it challenging to care for these snakes released them into the wild. Then, in 1992, Hurricane Andrew destroyed a python breeding center which resulted in hundreds more snakes being let loose. [3]
According to the wildlife agency’s website, through 2023, more than 11,000 pythons have been removed by these contractors. Last year’s challenge brought in 209 pythons and the grand prize winner was Paul Hobbs, who bagged 20 pythons. Also during 2023, Florida wildlife agency and district contractors removed about 2,200 pythons.
And she tried to give back to the Glades She donates hunts to charity auctions and has raised $600,000 since she started in January 2023 to conservation groups like the Alliance for Florida’s ...
According to the wildlife agency’s website, through 2023, more than 11,000 pythons have been removed by these contractors. Last year's challenge brought in 209 pythons and the grand prize winner was Paul Hobbs, who bagged 20 pythons. Also during 2023, Florida wildlife agency and district contractors removed about 2,200 pythons.
The Florida Python Challenge is an annual, ten-day competition where professional and novice participants join in the effort to remove invasive Burmese pythons in Florida. [1] Past the goal of removing pythons, the competition also serves as a conservation effort to raise awareness about invasive species ’ impacts to the local ecology and to ...