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

The Florida hunt exposed deep emotional divisions among animal rights activists and hunters. In social media forums and in dueling media interviews, the groups fiercely debated the morals and heritage ...

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?

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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joel Cleveland beat the odds – 953 to 1, to be precise – to secure a bear hunting permit in Florida starting at the crack of dawn on Dec. 6. He won't be using it, however. Florida’s first bear hunting ...

Florida's first black bear hunt in ten years is scheduled to begin on December 6, pending a court challenge. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission issued 187 permits for the hunt, ...