Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida’s first statewide black bear hunt in a decade is more than halfway over but state wildlife leaders have offered no ...

Hit pause on the bear hunt now, Gov. DeSantis. State wildlife officials have told us that the Florida bear populations are “growing” and “recovered.” Their own data tells a different story. Stop this ...

Florida is less than a week into its 2025 Black Bear Hunt, but we still don’t know how many bears have been harvested, or even if any hunters have bagged a single bear yet. When News 6 asked the ...

A Leon County circuit judge on Monday rejected a group's request for a temporary injunction to halt Florida's first black bear hunt in a decade. With the three-week hunt set to begin Dec. 6, Circuit ...

Arguing that Florida's decision to hold a bear hunt in December is not based on "sound" science and research, a conservation group this week asked a judge for an emergency temporary injunction to halt ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — For the first time in 10 years, commissioners with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) approved a regulated black bear hunt set to start on Dec. 6. The Florida ...

Most of the special permits to hunt Florida black bears in December have been claimed, a state wildlife spokesperson said this week, but more than three dozen are reportedly in the hands of hunt ...

The Florida hunt exposed deep emotional divisions among animal rights activists and hunters. In social media forums and in ...

Three months after Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commissioners approved it, the controversial Florida bear hunt has been reinstated and is scheduled for next month. Will it be be stopped?

Florida’s first statewide black bear hunt in a decade is more than halfway over but state wildlife leaders have offered no information on its progress, not even a death count. “Are we overkilling like ...