A state plan to resume bear hunting after a decade-long hibernation has deepened the discord over whether a bear hunt is a ...

A bear hunt was already on the state's May agenda, but the first documented human killing on May 5 lit a fire under an already controversial issue.

Protesters across Central Florida are urging wildlife officials to reject a proposed black bear hunt, calling it cruel and ...

Florida's first black bear hunt in ten years could happen in December. Regulators are meeting this week in Ocala to finalize ...

Florida wildlife officials next week will hear a proposal to create an annual “limited-entry” black bear hunt, with a ...

Humane World for Animals flatly opposes any recreational hunt, but says the options on the table for 2025 are particularly “cruel and dangerous” — the organization describes hounding as a “brutal” ...

The Bayfront protest was one of 13 statewide protests organized by One Protest, an animal advocacy organization.

A male black bear (not the one pictured) broke into a man’s home in rural southwest Florida and mauled him to death, ...

Gainesville’s anti-hunt demonstration was part of a 13-city protest coordinated by Bear Defenders to protest the black bear ...

Florida wildlife officers have killed three black bears in southwest Florida following a fatal attack on a man and a dog a ...

Robert Markel and his dog were killed by a black bear in Florida’s first fatal attack. FWC is set to vote on opening a bear ...

Officials say lab results have connected one of three black bears killed by wildlife officers in southwest Florida to a fatal ...