{"id":80624,"date":"2025-08-13T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/80624\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:00:08","slug":"fwc-2025-python-challenge-concludes-with-294-pythons-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/80624\/","title":{"rendered":"FWC 2025 Python Challenge concludes with 294 pythons removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLORIDA \u2014 The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission\u2019s 2025 Python Challenge has come to an end, as the organization raised awareness about invasive species of wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>Participants in this year\u2019s 10-day competition removed a record 294 invasive Burmese pythons from the South Florida region, officials said. Contestant Taylor Stanbury received a grand prize of $10,000 for removing 60 pythons.<\/p>\n<p>View the list of winners from other categories below:<\/p>\n<p>Longest python, Novice (15 feet, 11 inches) \u2013 Michael Marousky<br \/>\nLongest python, Professional (9 feet, 8 inches) \u2013 Kennith Chamberland<br \/>\nLongest python, Military (11 feet, 2 inches) \u2013 Jonathan Miller<br \/>\nMost pythons, Novice (14) \u2013 Krista Hoekstra<br \/>\nMost pythons, Professional (56) \u2013 Donna Kalil<br \/>\nMost pythons, Military (5) \u2013 John Southworth<br \/>\nRunner-up, most pythons, Novice (7) \u2013 Kymberly Clark<br \/>\nRunner-up, most pythons, Professional (22) \u2013 Hannah Gray<br \/>\nRunner-up, most pythons, Military (3) \u2013 Matthew Jamison<\/p>\n<p>Florida residents who missed this year\u2019s challenge can still participate in removing or reporting Burmese pythons. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/myfwc.com\/wildlifehabitats\/nonnatives\/python\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMJnRVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE3bk1UbzF2WUZDQW5mZ1Z3AR7EjkkdFOIgSSGl62uPeVvfjjnz3-YmRCUWCo4Oz-LRDkHT1OmvmuJ9q0y7tA_aem_cSC1NSs_4z1UoJ1zIFvgfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FWC\u2019s website<\/a> for additional information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLORIDA \u2014 The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission\u2019s 2025 Python Challenge has come to an end, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,54476,56588,2722,2808,957,37529,56589,3,13677,79,7739,624,452,201],"class_list":["post-80624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-app-human-interest","tag-app-latest-human-interest-stories","tag-app-top-stories","tag-florida","tag-human-interest","tag-instagram-bn9","tag-instagram-n13","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-science","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}