The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission plans to issue 187 hunting permits for the Florida Black bear hunt ...

Conservationists have filed a lawsuit to halt Florida's first black bear hunt in a decade, arguing that the hunt scheduled ...

Bear Warriors United has filed a lawsuit against the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to prevent a bear hunt ...

Amid a surge of applications for Florida’s first bear hunt in a decade, the state is reducing the number of black bears that ...

In the lawsuit, Bear Warriors United contended the agency limited public participation before approving the hunt.

Sixty-eight bears will be permitted for harvest from 11 eastern panhandle counties, including Franklin, Leon and Wakulla; 18 bears from 12 Central Florida counties; 46 from five North Florida counties ...

Bear Warriors United withdrew its challenge to the Florida bear hunt. The group plans to file a challenge in a different ...

Florida is targeting 187 bears for a controversial December hunt, the first Florida black bear hunt since 2015.

Hopefully we can convince them, please, take a breath, and let’s not even start this again. But let’s also make sure that, if they do, we take all the worst things out of ...

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Last month, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission approved the state’s first black bear hunt in over a decade.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The first black bear hunt in Florida in a decade will take place in December under a rule adopted Wednesday by state wildlife officials despite strong opposition to the eventual ...