# @outdoor_life on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DPNNFWjkhj_
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35078488-outdoor-life-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-09-30T00:30:15.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Outdoor Life (@outdoor_life) — https://gondola.cc/outdoor_life

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As part of Florida’s Python Elimination Program, the South Florida Water Management District and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission pays python-hunting contractors $50 per snake up to 4 feet long, then $25 per foot after that. So, for example, catching a 10-foot python under the program will net a contractor $200 for that snake.⁠
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If a contractor finds a verified active nest, that earns another $200. But even if you don’t find pythons, you’ll still earn hourly wages — between $18 and $30 per hour — for hunting. But all those dollars come with a few big caveats: Hunting invasive pythons, including the massive Burmese python, in the Everglades is dangerous — mostly alligators flipping boats and GPS units going haywire — and damn hard work. To see if it’s a real way to make a living, we sat down with several of these contractors to see what they really make.⁠
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#Florida #python #pythons #invasivespecies #burmesepython #burmesepythons #wildlife #conservation #hunting #outdoors #outdoorlife⁠
Story by: she.will.roam

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burmesepythons, conservation, outdoors, pythons, wildlife, burmesepython, invasivespecies, python, hunting, outdoorlife, florida

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