Florida has a way of turning ecological crises into cinema-worthy solutions. One example is an annual python hunt in the Everglades, where competitors head into the wetlands to remove the non-native ...
Photographer and writer Bob Bramblet is the past president of the Florida Outdoors Writers Association, and he wrote a book called 'Where the Python Sleeps'.
Over 900 participants helped remove 280 invasive Burmese pythons from South Florida during the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, according to FWC.
Mike Kimmel, known as the "Python Cowboy," leads guided hunts for invasive iguana and Burmese pythons. Invasive iguanas are a costly pest in Florida, damaging landscaping and burrowing into flood ...
It's almost python hunting season in Florida! Every year, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and the South Florida Water Management District host a python challenge and award ...
Xander Robin's fluorescent, stranger-than-fiction film follows a variety of American oddballs chasing grisly snake-hunting glory in the annual Florida Python Challenge. “It’s hours of boredom ...
Note to our audience: This first-person story, a story written by a board member of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida who joined biologists on a python hunt earlier that year, was originally ...
After taking second place in the professional category of the Florida Python Challenge this year, Taylor Stanberry is ready for her next adventures.
Dusty" Wildman" Crum sells python-made items such as purses and boots at his Wildman's Pizza in Everglades City. Crum has been hunting pythons in south Florida for 15 years. Wildman wants says his ...