After over three hours of public input, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spent about 30 minutes discussing and asking questions to staff about a bear hunt before voting 4-1 in ...

As Florida moves forward with plans to reinstate a regulated black bear hunt for the first time since 2015, opponents of the hunt from around the world are mobilizing an unconventional tactic — ...

Bear hunt opponents are buying Florida hunting licenses and entering the lottery for bear permits, hoping to reduce the number of bears killed. Chuck O'Neal, an outspoken opponent of the hunt ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) approved a 23-day bear hunt with a 4-1 vote on Wednesday. Steve Ware, the general manager of Sportsman's Warehouse, has decades of ...

Florida is close to opening swaths of the state to a black bear hunt, the first since the controversial one in 2015. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted 4-1 on Wednesday to ...

Amid support from hunters and warnings of a “slaughter” from animal-rights advocates, state wildlife officials Wednesday moved forward with Florida’s first black bear hunt in a decade. Before a crowd ...

OCALA — The state wildlife commission on Wednesday endorsed Florida’s first black bear hunt in a decade, turning aside fears of animal advocates who worry the plan for a December hunt will ...

FWC hasn't held a bear hunt in more than a decade, and even FWC's polls show that the hunt is unpopular among Floridians. Commissioner Steve Hudson voted against a hunt that, if approve on final ...

FWC hasn't held a bear hunt in more than a decade, and even FWC's polls show that the hunt is unpopular among Floridians. Commissioner Steve Hudson voted against a hunt that, if approve on final vote, ...