Fifty-two bears were “harvested” during the recently wrapped 2025 bear hunt, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...

Fifty-two black bears were “harvested” during the 2025 Florida black bear hunt, the first of its kind in a decade, ...

Read full article: Bear euthanized after being shot in Lake County; Florida wildlife officials relocate younger bear found nearby ORLANDO, Fla. – Starting this weekend, hunters will be able to hunt ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (WESH) – Florida’s bear hunt is now underway. Over the next three weeks, and for the first time since 2015, hunters are expected to take several dozen black bears statewide. Bear ...

Ten years ago, a Florida bear hunt shocked the public when photos spread online of bloody carcasses of mother bears loaded in pickup trucks and splayed out on concrete slabs at hunter check-in ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Florida black bear hunt begins this Saturday, Dec. 6, for the first time in ten years. Black bear hunting was outlawed across the state in 1994, when the population reached ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) - Florida will open its first bear hunting season in a decade Saturday, marking a significant shift in the state’s wildlife management approach.

Florida officials permitted bear hunting for the first time in 10 years. The number of bears killed was lower than expected and did not draw the same public outcry as last time.

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

The former president of Safari Club International's local chapter discusses Florida's black bear hunt and how its opponents ...