{"id":144258,"date":"2022-10-28T16:39:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T11:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/teen-wins-10k-for-capturing-28-pythons\/"},"modified":"2022-10-28T16:40:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T11:10:02","slug":"teen-wins-10k-to-capture-28-pythons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/teen-wins-10k-to-capture-28-pythons\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen wins $10K to Capture 28 Pythons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A\u00a0Florida teen is $10,000 richer after capturing\u00a0more than two dozen\u00a0pythons\u00a0as part of the state&#8217;s &#8220;python challenge,&#8221;Officials stated.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Concepcion, 19, won the grand prize after removing\u00a028 Burmese pythons as part of Florida&#8217;s Python Challenge, the <a href=\"https:\/\/myfwc.com\/news\/all-news\/python-challenge-1022\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission<\/a> (FWC) reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He removed the most pythons by one person, but in total, participants from across the country, Canada\u00a0and Latvia removed 231 Burmese pythons during the 10-day competition,\u00a0accordion to the FWC.<\/p>\n<p>The grand prize was provided by the\u00a0Bergeron Everglades Foundation. FWC reported that prizes were also awarded based upon the length of the python removed and the number of pythons removed based on novice or professional experience. There was also a category for veteran and military awards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Concepcion talked to the South Florida Sun Sentinel regarding the winning strategy that earned him 28 pythons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI worked a levee, caught a couple hatchings, and was like, \u2018Dang, this might be the ticket!\u2019 So every single night from then on, I went out there \u2014 just before sundown to sunup,\u201d Concepcion told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/environment\/fl-ne-python-challenge-2022-winner-20221025-e7bypcjjgvatbh3egmnjjfrtrq-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Florida Sun Sentinel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Python Challenge was started to eradicate the invasive python species in south Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce again, the Florida Python Challenge has yielded impressive results with hundreds of invasive pythons being removed from the wild,\u201dAccording to FWC, Governor Ron DeSantis said this. \u201cRemoving these snakes is one of the many efforts we are employing to restore and maintain the Everglades ecosystem.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0Florida teen is $10,000 richer after capturing\u00a0more than two dozen\u00a0pythons\u00a0as part of the state&#8217;s &#8220;python challenge,&#8221;Officials stated. Matthew Concepcion, 19, won the grand prize after removing\u00a028 Burmese pythons as part of Florida&#8217;s Python Challenge, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) reported.\u00a0 He removed the most pythons by one person, but in total, participants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":144259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Teen-Wins-10K-for-Capturing-28-Pythons.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144260,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144258\/revisions\/144260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}