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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 ...
Florida’s python challenge draws hundreds of hunters from around the ... has seen an increase in pythons killed ever since it started paying contractors year-round to eradicate the snakes in 2017.
Florida’s Python Challenge began as a loosely planned scramble in the Everglades, ... In 2017, the South Florida Water Management District started hiring python hunters. They are paid an hourly ...
2024 Python Challenge Ultimate Grand Prize winner Ronald Kiger poses with a large Burmese python. Kiger caught 20 of the snakes, earning him $10,000. (Florida FWC)
Burmese pythons weigh about 200 pounds each, so that's roughly 10 massive snakes. In the video above, one of the bounty hunters wrestles a massive snake into the box — it's the largest python ...
Friday marked the start of the annual Florida Python Challenge, where hunters head into the Everglades to track down invasive Burmese pythons in hopes of grabbing a share of $30,000 in prizes. The ...
Ian Easterling, 25, a conservation associate with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, picks off the shedding skin of a captured female Burmese python on Tuesday, March 28, 2017.
The $10,000 grand prize went to Ronald Kiger, who removed 20 pythons from the swamp during the 10-day hunt. Florida Python Challenge winner awarded $10K grand prize for killing 20 Burmese pythons ...