"After the first time you see one, you'll start seeing them, but you'll also go nights [without seeing them.]" ...

It was a productive 2025 for Burmese python hunter Kevin Pavlidis. Pavlidis once again captured the most pythons in December for the South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination ...

In Florida, hunters have successfully caught and removed hundreds of pythons as part of official conservation efforts.

With a new year under way the South Florida Water Management Districted (SFWMD) is once again incentivizing Burmese python hunters in Florida to eliminate as many of the invasive snakes as they can ...

Every month the South Florida Water Management District challenges contracted hunters to eliminate as many of the invasive snakes as they can.

A python hunter earned multiple cash bonuses in March for capturing the most and longest snakes. The South Florida Water Management District's program pays contractors to remove invasive Burmese ...

A python hunter captured the second heaviest Burmese python on record in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. The captured female python measured 16 feet, 10 inches long and was found in the Big Cypress ...

Something has been quietly emptying the Everglades. Burmese pythons — some stretching past 13 feet — have spent decades ...