If approved, this hunt will be the first in more than a decade, since a 2015 hunt that saw lactating mothers and cubs killed.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission bear hunt plan faces strong opposition from conservationists and the public.

August 13, 2025 The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is set to vote on the state's first bear hunt in a decade, sparking heated opposition from conservation groups like Sierra ...

Florida’s bear population is currently estimated at 4,050, up from just 1,200 in the 1990s when the state ended annual bear hunts and about five times above the minimum population objectives to ...

Florida's black bear hunting season will also be much longer than the one in 2015, and likely a lot bloodier. Wildlife ...

When I think of what makes Florida an amazing place to live, I think of its wildness. From the cypress swamps in the south to ...

Florida’s bear population is currently estimated at 4,050, up from just 1,200 in the 1990s when the state ended annual bear hunts and about five times above the minimum population objectives to ...

The Times’ Viewpoint Editor Graham Brink’s recent column on Florida’s proposed bear hunt calls for facts over emotion. I agree. But several of the column’s claims misrepresent what environmental ...

State wildlife officials next month could approve rules for a three-week bear hunt in December that would have “a more ...

"Mr. Mikkelson sent text messages and photographs of the bear and of himself posing with the bear to acquaintances," a court ...