Let the countdown begin, snake hunters. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has announced the dates and times for the 2024 Python Challenge. The FWC posted on its website ...

It'sss time! The 2024 Florida Python Challenge is now underway. The annual competition aims to rid the Everglades of the Burmese python, an invasive species that poses a threat to the ecosystem.

The Florida Python Challenge encourages people once year to collectively go out and remove as many snakes as possible over a 10-day stretch. Cash prizes are awarded for the biggest haul.

When is the 2025 Florida Python Challenge? It begins at 12:01 a.m. on July 11, 2025 and it ends at 5 p.m. on July 20, 2025. This is earlier than in the past when the Challenge had been held in August.

This year’s challenge begins Friday at midnight and will end August 18 at 5 p.m. Going into the weekend, there were 729 competitors who had registered, challenge spokesperson Lisa Thompson told CNN.

It's official, the Florida Python Challenge this year has a winner. The $10,000 grand prize went to Ronald Kiger, who removed 20 Burmese pythons from the Florida Everglades during the 10-day hunt ...

The annual Florida Python Challenge is underway and concludes Aug. 18. Professional python trapper Brandon Rahe writes that native species, and indeed the entire Everglades ecosystem, would probabl… ...

The Florida Python Challenge runs from July 10th until July 20th at 5 p.m. as a way to incentivize people to help remove the invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades.