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Florida prepares next massive python hunt as Everglades invasion worsens

The annual 10-day conservation competition is focused on removing invasive Burmese pythons from public lands in South Florida.

Massive Everglades Discovery Drops 120 Invasive Python Eggs Just Before Florida Hunt Begins

A professional python hunter in the Florida Everglades recently stumbled upon what can only be described as the ultimate nightmare buffet: two massive, neighboring nests packed with a combined total of roughly 120 Burmese python eggs.

Florida deputy sheriff spent years hunting pythons deep in the Everglades

"After the first time you see one, you'll start seeing them, but you'll also go nights [without seeing them.]"

‘The Python Hunt’ Review: An Entertainingly Garish Documentary Account of a State-Sanctioned Culling Spree

Xander Robin's fluorescent, stranger-than-fiction 'The Python Hunt' follows a variety of American oddballs in the annual Florida Python Challenge.
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The Python Hunt

An armade of amateur snake hunters descend on the Florida Everglades to kill pythons for money. What could possibly go wrong?

Florida's wild 10-day python hunting contest takes over the Everglades after dark

According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the Burmese python feeds on a "variety of mammals, birds, reptiles, and protected species such as the federally designated threatened wood stork and the federally designated endangered Key Largo woodrat."