Grand prize winner removed 20 Burmese pythons from the wild in Florida …
WEB3 days ago · WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — 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, which was meant to bring awareness to the threat that these pythons pose to the ecosystem. Last year, he was the direct runner-up to the grand prize winner.
2024 Florida Python Challenge: FWC announces its 10 champions
WEB3 days ago · The Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day competition created by FWC to encourage participants to remove Burmese pythons from seven commission-managed lands in South Florida. The Burmese python is ...
Florida Python Challenge winner removes 20 Burmese pythons ... - CBS News
WEB3 days ago · The $10,000 grand prize went to Ronald Kiger, who removed 20 Burmese pythons from the Florida Everglades during the 10-day hunt, which was meant to bring awareness to the threat that these pythons ...
Images: Burmese snakes caught by Florida Python Challenge …
WEB4 days ago · Palm Beach Post. More than 850 people participated in the 2024 Python Challenge, a 10-day hunt aimed at raising awareness of destruction caused by the invasive species in the fragile Florida ...
Pythons in Florida, Everglades: See biggest snakes caught; 1 was …
WEBJun 26, 2024 · Burmese pythons, an invasive species first identified in Everglades National Park more than 20 years ago, are distributed across more than a thousand square miles in southern Florida but have...
A hunter’s graveyard shift: grabbing pythons in the Everglades
WEBAug 18, 2024 · In the dead of night, hunters go deep into the Florida Everglades, searching for the invasive Burmese pythons that are eating up mice, rabbits and other prey. The only gleam on those dark nights come from a pickup truck's headlights.
Florida’s War With Invasive Pythons Has a New Twist | WIRED
WEBAug 18, 2023 · It may not be possible to eradicate the state’s tens of thousands of Burmese pythons. But the local wildlife is biting back—and humans wielding new tech can help.
A record 19-foot-long Burmese python is caught in a Florida preserve : NPR
WEBJul 13, 2023 · A 19-foot Burmese python — the longest ever recorded — was caught by local hunters in South Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve this week. To put the catch into perspective, the snake...
Snake hunters nab 19-foot-long Burmese python in Florida - NBC News
WEBJul 14, 2023 · Snake hunters this week caught the longest Burmese python ever documented in Florida that measured an eye-popping 19 feet, authorities said. The super-sized slitherer was discovered Monday in...
To Catch a Snake: Largest Python Found in Everglades Signals a …
WEBJun 23, 2022 · The Burmese python caught by a team of trackers breaks a record and shows the invasive species surviving in Florida’s ecosystem despite efforts to remove those snakes.