“If I had a video of my first python capture, it’d be the most embarrassing thing ever.” A couple months before season, he starts prepping with weights and yoga.

The South Florida Water Management District's new python incentive program has led to the elimination of more than 100 of the invasive snakes.

A python hunter caught 87 invasive Burmese pythons in the wild in South Florida in July as part of a new incentive program.

The South Florida Water Management District's new incentive program seems to be working with nearly 100 snakes eliminated so far in 2025.

The number of Python Challenge participants has fluctuated through the years including a high of nearly 1,600 in 2013.

Donna Kalil, a contract hunter for the South Florida Water Management District, nabbed 56 snakes during the Python Challenge ...