Bear Hunting

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will be asked next week to set a quota of 320 bears for a controversial hunt in October. The hunt,...

The first chance in decades to bag a bear is irresistible to Florida hunters. Sales of $100 permits are soaring, even though animal rights activists are...

Florida wildlife officials are confident the state’s first bear hunt in two decades will move forward despite a lawsuit aimed to stop it. Members of the…

Florida starts issuing permits today for the first bear in two decades. They will be on sale until the start of the seven-day season in October.The…

Conservation groups want a judge to shoot down the return of bear hunting in Florida and to halt the pending sale of bear-hunting permits. With permits...

Environmentalists plan to file suit today against the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission seeking to stop the state's first bear hunt in two…

Florida's top wildlife authority says bears represent quote "a great conservation success story" in the state and that it's time move from saving them to…

The Humane Society of the United States on Monday delivered more than 90,000 names of people who, the group says, want Gov. Rick Scott to halt...

Facing a June 24 deadline, animal rights activists made a last-ditch effort Wednesday to convince Governor Rick Scott to halt the first bear hunting...

Black Bears represent a successful come-back story in Florida. Driven to the brink of extinction in the early 1900s, black bears were placed on the…