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Florida wildlife officials said Thursday that 1,000 hunters removed 231 Burmese pythons during the 10-day Florida Python Challenge.

“Every one of the pythons removed as part of the Challenge is one less preying on our native birds, mammals and reptiles,” said Rodney Barreto, the commission’s chairman.

One trapper 28 Burmese pythons and won the $10,000 grand prize for most pythons caught. The longest python measured just over 11 feet, earning the winner $1,500.

"Its my responsibility to go and take part in the challenge to give our native wildlife a fighting chance," one participant told Newsweek.

The winners in this summer’s come-one, come-all Florida Python Challenge were announced Thursday in a contest that drew nearly 1,000 professional and amateur hunters from three countries and removed 231 invasive snakes from the Everglades.Burmese pythons are not native to Florida and negatively impact native species and are found in and around the Everglades ecosystem. A female Burmese python lays up to 100 eggs at a time. Since 2000, more than 17,000 wild Burmese pythons have been removed fro...

More than 230 pythons were removed from the Florida Everglades as part of an annual competition to eliminate the invasive species from the South Florida...

In an effort to curb the population of the Burmese python in Florida, hundreds of the invasive species were removed during the 2022 Florida Python Challenge.

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Hundreds of Burmese pythons removed during 2022 Florida Python Challenge®

Nearly 1,000 participants from 32 states, Canada, and Latvia came together to remove hundreds of Burmese pythons from South Florida as part of the 2022