Florida Fish and Wildlife's newest python retrieval program offers up t-shirts, Yeti tumblers and a GoPro camera in return for removing Burmese pythons from state land.

FWC's Python Pickup Program

Remove, euthanize a python, submit photo to FWC

Entries can win T-shirt, monthly prizes, grand prize

FWC unveiled its new Python Pickup Program Monday.

To participate, all you have to do is submit photographic evidence of the python after its been euthanized, along with the location from which it was removed.

Anyone who submits this first entry gets a free "Python Pickup" T-shirt.

Plus, for every submission received, participants are entered into a monthly drawing for a slew of prizes, ranging from snake hooks to engraved Yeti tumblers, GoPro cameras, Plano sportsman's trunks and Badlands backpacks.

The first monthly drawing takes place in May.

Participants also get entries into the grand prize -- a Florida Lifetime Sportsman's License. That drawing will be held next year.

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FWC says pythons can be removed from 22 commission-managed lands without a permit except in areas that are posted as "closed to public access."

You can also remove pythons from private lands or other public lands as long as you have prior permission to do so.

More information, including details on how to humanely remove and euthanize a python and how to enter for prizes in the Python Pickup Program, are available on the FWC website.

Burmese pythons are largely seen in south Florida, especially in the Everglades. The snakes are native to Asia. FWC officials believe many people who kept the snakes as pets released them into Everglades National Park.

It is no longer legal to get a Burmese python as a pet unless you already had one on or before July 1, 2010.

The snake is a non-venomous constrictor and there is a low risk the snake will attack a human. However, pythons prey on native Florida species and most can get as long as 10 feet, with some growing to 18 feet in length in the wild.

FWC in previous years has held python hunts. This new program promises to be year-round and offer hunters more chances at prizes.

Meanwhile, the South Florida Water Management District is in the midst of a Python Elimination Pilot Program, which started last month. On Tuesday, SFWMD will host a Facebook Live for the weigh-in of the 50th python captured in its district. That Burmese python is estimated to be 14 feet long.

The hunters are getting paid $8.10 an hour for up to eight hours daily, along with bonuses for the snakes size. Some hunters have raked in over a thousand dollars in bounties so far.