"It's a chess game, and then it's like whack-a-mole."
More than 850 people participated in the 2024 Python Challenge, a 10-day hunt aimed at raising awareness of destruction caused by the invasive species in the fragile Florida Everglades.
But there could be just one winner of the $10,000 grand prize, and that was Ronald Kiger of Marion County, who brought in 20 Burmese pythons during the contest.
Kiger's triumph was announced at Tuesday's Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission meeting in Duck Key.
"I just want to say thanks to my family for putting up with 10 days of camping in the swamp with the heat and the bugs," Kiger said at the meeting. "We enjoy getting out there and doing it and helping the state out."
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