Florida earnestly began hunting pythons in about 2012. It was the first year of the Python Challenge ... intentional or not – that allowed them to gain a foothold in the park by the mid-1980s, ...

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 ...