The South Florida Water Management District is now rewarding hunters for removing python eggs and active nests from the landscape.

The South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination Program incentivizes contractors to remove invasive Burmese pythons. The program awards monthly bonuses to the contractor who catches ...

Aaron Mann removed 87 Burmese pythons in July, the most by any hunter in the South Florida Water Management District's 2025 incentive program. Mann's total brings the 2025 program's eliminated python ...

The June winners of the South Florida Water Management District python elimination program raked in snakes and money.

Python hunting occurs year-round in Florida to combat the invasive species disrupting the Everglades ecosystem. The South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination Program pays hunters to ...

See scientists wrangling the invasive snakes.