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Call her Florida Python Challenge Queen

WFLA Tampa on MSN · 9h

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.

Saints Wire · 16h

Call her the Florida Python Challenge Queen: FWC announces $10,000 winner for competition

The annual competition to raise awareness and eliminate the invasive Burmese python was held July 10-20, 2025 in the Everglades.

The Palm Beach Post · 38m

Florida Python Challenge winner nabbed 60 pythons and she's just 4'11"

The number of Python Challenge participants has fluctuated through the years including a high of nearly 1,600 in 2013. Meet the 2025 winner, Taylor Stanberry.

FWC Approves Dec. Black Bear Hunt

FWC approves 1st black bear hunt in a decade amid fierce opposition and legal threats

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) voted unanimously Wednesday to establish a black bear hunting season,

WPEC CBS 12 on MSN · 17h

FWC approves black bear hunting rules, permits available for 2025 season

The new rules will establish bear hunting zones within four of the seven existing bear management units. The FWC says in total, 187 permits will be issued across the East Panhandle, North, Central, and South BMUs. Each permit will allow the harvest of one bear within the assigned bear hunting zone.

FOX 35 Orlando on MSN · 10h

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.

Tampa Free Press on MSN17h

FWC Approves Revised Guidelines To Bolster Burrowing Owl Conservation

New Measures Aim to Streamline Permitting and Enhance Protection for Threatened Species The Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

22hon MSN

Bear hunting returning to Florida for first time in a decade following unanimous FWC vote

FWC officials said the proposed hunt is aimed at managing Florida’s growing black bear population. The commission is ...

18hon MSN

FWC rescues man clinging to kayak with head barely above water: ‘You’re one lucky S.O.B.’

A man was rescued after officers found him clinging to his overturned kayak with “his head barely above water,” the Florida ...

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