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Registration is now open for The Florida Python Challenge, the annual competition where participants scour the Everglades to ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has announced the dates for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge. What to ...

By Ryan Arbogast Click here for updates on this story COLLIER COUNTY, Florida (WBBH) — What was supposed to be a routine python-tracking mission turned into a whodunnit deep in the Florida Everglades, ...

Florida wildlife officials have unveiled the dates for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, as part of a broader conservation ...

Biologists tracking a big python found it dead, chewed up and buried. They launched into a CSI-like investigation that ...

Dates for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day event aimed at removing invasive Burmese pythons, have been announced ...

An FGCU scientist says the Python Challenge is mostly for fun and awareness. Population control is as important as ever, amid ...

First identified in Everglades National Park in 2000, the Burmese python may be the most destructive foreign animal in the park's history. Burmese pythons have put a stranglehold on Florida's ...

The challenge aims to reduce the invasive Burmese python population in the Everglades. Pythons are difficult to find, making the challenge a significant effort. In other words, good luck finding ...

Additionally, studies of bobcats on tree islands in the Everglades suggest that the more pythons there are in an area, the fewer bobcats use it, either because snakes eat them, or because there ...