An hourly rate ($10.00 per hour or $15.00 per hour depending on the area) for up to ten (10) hours each day while actively searching for pythons on designated lands. An additional incentive payment of $50.00 for each python measuring up to four (4) feet plus an extra $25.00 for each foot measured above four (4) feet.
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Burmese pythons, which are not native to Florida, prey on birds, mammals and other reptiles. A female python can lay as many as 100 eggs a year. Cash prizes of up to $2,500 are available in both the professional and novice categories for those who remove the most pythons, officials said.Concepcion was awarded the $10,000 Ultimate Grand Prize courtesy of the Bergeron Everglades Foundation. Dustin Crum won a $1,500 grand prize for removing the longest python, at just over 11ft. Earlier this year, biologists hauled in the heaviest Burmese python ever captured in Florida.
Is there a bounty on pythons in Florida
The snakes are an intimidating adversary. But locals aren't giving up. A Florida government program incentivises snake-hunting, offering a cash bounty for each dead snake. More than 6,000 snakes have been killed under the program.
