Python Challenges - Search News

Florida Python Challenge captures 280 snakes

280 snakes killed at 2026 Florida Python Challenge

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) announced the results of this year’s Florida Python Challenge, which featured 907 participants from 30 states as well as Vietnam and Canada.

· 1d

Python challenge grand prize winner snags 96 snakes along with $10,000

· 17h

Florida Python Challenge: Longest snakes caught added up to 33 feet

Saints Wire · 2d

Bonita deputy releases Burmese python book on his hunting adventures

Bob Bramblet is a Lee County Sheriff's Office employee, outdoorsman, and award-winning writer.

· 10h

Tom Rahill catches 96 snakes to unseat reigning Florida python champ Taylor Stanberry

· 1d

280 pythons captured in annual 10-day Florida Python Challenge

· 1d

Kym Clark hunted in the 2026 Python Challenge

South Florida Water Management District contracted python hunter Kym Clark with one of her catches.

· 20h

Winner of 2026 Florida Python Challenge announced; 96 pythons removed

· 1d

FWC announces Florida Python Challenge winner

WPLG Local 10

Python Challenge ends with 280 invasive snakes removed from Everglades; top hunter captures 96

The results are in from the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, and wildlife officials say hundreds of invasive Burmese pythons were removed from the Everglades during the annual competition.

CNN

Florida’s Python Challenge is just wrangling snakes for some. But for military vets, it’s a chance to heal

For the animals and plants native to the Florida Everglades, the removal of invasive species like the Burmese python is a tough job that someone’s got to do. But for many military veterans who help out with the task, it has become an opportunity for a ...