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Taylor Stanberry, a Naples native, won the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, removing 60 Burmese pythons.

The annual competition aims to control the invasive python population in Florida.

This is the first time a woman has won the $10,000 grand prize in the competition's history.

For the first time, a woman won the Florida Python Challenge in July and collected her $10,000 reward this week.

More than 900 people from 30 different states and even some from Canada participated in the 2025 Florida Python Challenge last month, removing a record-breaking number of 294 invasive Burmese Pythons in just 10 days.

But there was one Florida-native python hunter who removed more of the gigantic snakes than anyone else who participated, securing a $10,000 prize that was awarded

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