Florida’s first state-sanctioned black bear hunt in a decade finished on December 28th, 2025. Arguments and backlash about ...

Most people who won permits to participate in the first Florida black bear hunt since 2015 came away empty-handed. Jeff ...

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?

This month, Florida allowed the first black bear hunt in 10 years after the last one was ended abruptly over too many killed. How did this one go?

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission issued 172 black bear permits for the December hunt, which ended on the 28th.

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 ...

Florida’s black bear hunt is scheduled to go forward next month despite its unpopularity and a lack of recent population studies to know if the mammal’s numbers are in decline. The Florida Fish and ...

State wildlife officials said the hunt was needed to manage Florida's growing bear population, while opponents said the agency was using flawed data to allow what they called a "trophy hunt." ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida's first black bear hunt since 2015 ended Saturday, closing a three-week season that drew sharp criticism from animal advocacy groups despite assurances from state wildlife ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — For the first time in a decade, hunters armed with rifles and crossbows are fanning out across Florida’s swamps and flatwoods to legally hunt the Florida black bear, over the ...