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Woman wins 2025 Florida Python Challenge

FWC announces winners of the 2025 Florida Python Challenge

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) announced the winners of the 2025 Florida Python Challenge™ on Wednesday.

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Woman Wins 2025 Florida Python Challenge After Removing More Invasive Snakes Than Anyone Else

The grand-prize winner of this year's challenge — a state effort to decrease the number of Burmese pythons in the Everglades and minimize the reptile's threat to native wildlife — was Taylor Stanberry. According to her Instagram, she's a "venomous keeper" and "relocator" who has already been dubbed the "new queen of the Everglades."

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Woman Removes 60 Snakes from the Everglades in 2025 Florida Python Challenge

A Florida woman has emerged as the ultimate grand prize winner of a python-removal challenge, earning $10,000 after removing 60 Burmese pythons during the 10-day competition.

Florida approves 1st black bear hunt in a decade

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FWC unanimously approves Florida’s 1st black bear hunt in 10 years

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is meeting for a final hearing on the rule proposals on black bear hunting.

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Florida bear hunt: FWC approves proposal for first bear hunt in 10 years

Officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) voted on Wednesday to host a proposed three-week bear hunt in December. This will be the first time in 10 years that hunting black bears will be permitted in the Sunshine State.

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Florida allows black bear hunting for the first time in a decade

It followed the passage, in a landslide vote, of a state amendment last November enshrining the right to fishing and hunting in Florida’s constitution. Up until Wednesday, Florida was one of only six states that didn’t allow bear hunting,

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N.Y. teen killed in jet ski accident in Florida while on family vacation

Rachel Aliza Nisanov, 13, was riding in tandem on a jet ski with her sister on Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale's Intracoastal ...

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Florida's controversial bear hunt returns in December. Here's a breakdown of the rules

Florida's black bear hunting season will open for 23 days, between Dec. 6 and Dec. 28. FWC will issue 187 permits throughout the state. Each permit holder is limited to take one bear. Come December, ...

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FWC approves preliminary guidelines to open Apalachicola Bay for limited wild oyster harvest

Thursday morning, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted to approve preliminary guidelines that would ...

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