Python hunting is a new territory in the wildlife guiding business, leading adventurous visitors on excursions to find the giant invasive constrictors that have overrun the Everglades.

Each year, the challenge brings together wildlife officials, seasoned python hunters, and volunteers to restore Florida's ...

Python hunters work the night shift — clocking in at sundown and hunting till dawn to track their quarry, which lies low during the sweltering heat of summer days.

More: Python 'hot spot' identified in Palm Beach County by University of Florida study Why hunt Burmese pythons? Florida earnestly began hunting pythons in about 2012.

Donna Kalil couldn’t hear a python slithering in the grass with the wind blowing. But spotting a tunnel-shaped snake trail, she disappeared into the cattails hunting for one.

Donna Kalil, a contract hunter for the South Florida Water Management District, nabbed 56 snakes during the Python Challenge between July 11 and July 20. She brought in 19 during the 2024 contest when ...

Why hunt Burmese pythons? Florida earnestly began hunting pythons in about 2012. It was the first year of the Python Challenge and the same year a study in Everglades National Park suggested pythons ...

Since the python invasion, the Everglades is a “ghost town,” he said. After five years of python hunting, Benoit realized how quickly pythons adapt to their surrounding environment.

The new movie “The Python Hunt” follows the Florida Python Challenge: A 10-day competition to remove the most pythons from the Everglades.

The annual Florida Python Challenge is back. The event offers hunters from across the country the chance to win a $10,000 Ultimate Grand Prize for removing the most invasive Burmese pythons from ...

A study from the U.S. Geological Survey called the state’s python problem “one of the most intractable invasive-species management issues across the globe.” ...

Registration has opened for Florida's annual python hunting challenge. The competition is not for the faint of heart.