Hosted on MSN

2025 Florida Python Challenge had the most women winners in the snake hunt's history

Half of the winners in this year’s Python Challenge were women, the highest number of huntresses to take home prizes in the annual contest that pits wits and skill as much as muscle against the ...
Los Angeles Times

Meet the women hunting giant pythons ‘eating everything’ in the Everglades

KENDALL, Fla. — Donna Kalil loves snakes. She’s been fascinated by them since she was a kid living in the mountains of Venezuela’s capital in the 1960s, where her father was stationed as an Air Force ...
Sun Sentinel

From the laboratory to the swamp, women lead the fight against invasive pythons in the Everglades

When it comes to protecting the Florida Everglades, women lead the way. This has been true since at least 1916, when the Florida Federation of Women’s Clubs established Royal Palm State Park, which ...
Tampa Bay Times

Two women from St. Petersburg like to hunt pythons in the Everglades. We went with them.

Gov. Ron DeSantis promised to double down on python removals but hunters sometimes can’t even find one. Former Times Reporter Former Times Photographer Photo Director/News and Sports The Tampa Bay ...
WMUR

Women traveling from Boston to Maine find python in rental car

Police in Maine say two women opened the trunk of their rental car to retrieve their luggage and were greeted by a snake.The women drove the rental car from Boston to Kennebunk, Maine, where they ...