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The annual Florida Python Challenge has slithered to its conclusion, with professionally categorized python purger Ronald Kiger crowned its victor after he removed 20 Burmese pythons from the ...
More: Participants from all over the country and Canada come for Florida Python Challenge this week. Kimberly Miller is a journalist for The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA Today Network of ...
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 ...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — It’s official, the Florida Python Challenge this year has a winner. The $10,000 grand prize went to Ronald Kiger, who removed 20 Burmese pythons from the Florida Everglades during the 10-day hunt, which was meant to bring awareness to the threat that these pythons pose to the ecosystem. Last year, he was the ...
Ronald Kiger won the grand prize of the 2024 Python Challenge by bringing in 20 Burmese pythons. A total of 195 pythons were captured.
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. Amy Siewe, the self-named Python Huntress, won a prize last year for catching a Burmese python measuring 10 feet and 9 inches (327 ...
Scores of Burmese pythons have been captured in Florida.. The snakes, which are an invasive species, were rounded up in a 10-day competition involving 850 participants from 33 states and Canada ...
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. Amy Siewe, the self-named Python Huntress, won a prize last year for catching a Burmese python measuring 10 feet and 9 inches (327 ...