{"id":272390,"date":"2026-05-15T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272390\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:00:08","slug":"south-floridas-python-challenge-dates-to-be-announced-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272390\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida\u2019s Python Challenge dates to be announced soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 15, 2026 &#8211; Dates for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge will be announced May 19. A conservation effort that includes public outreach on invasive Burmese pythons, and a 10-day competition to remove the species from public lands in South Florida, it&#8217;s co-sponsored by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission,the South Florida Water Management District, Everglades National Park and other partners. A record 294 invasive Burmese pythons were taken during the 2025 event. Information is available <a href=\"https:\/\/flpythonchallenge.org\/?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 15, 2026 &#8211; Dates for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge will be announced May 19. A conservation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-272390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}