Ahead of the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, the Naples Daily News and The News-Press interviewed Zac Chejanovski, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Python Management Coordinator.

Friday is the first day of the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, when avid and amateur hunters alike can compete for cash prizes as they work to rid the Everglades of the ravenous, invasive Burmese ...

More than 900 people participated in the 2025 Python Challenge, a 10-day snake hunt in South Florida. The catches were monumental this year with 294 pythons captured — the most in the contest's ...

Taylor Stanberry, a Naples native, won the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, removing 60 Burmese pythons. The annual competition aims to control the invasive python population in Florida. This is the ...