Tom Rahill catches 96 snakes to unseat reigning Florida python champ Taylor Stanberry

Florida Python Challenge once again turned the Everglades into a high-stakes conservation contest, with hundreds of hunters racing to remove one of the region's most destructive i
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Python Challenge ends with 280 invasive snakes removed from Everglades; top hunter captures 96

The results are in from the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, and wildlife officials say hundreds of invasive Burmese pythons were removed from the Everglades during the annual competition.
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Florida’s Python Challenge is just wrangling snakes for some. But for military vets, it’s a chance to heal

For the animals and plants native to the Florida Everglades, the removal of invasive species like the Burmese python is a tough job that someone’s got to do. But for many military veterans who help out with the task, it has become an opportunity for a ...