She Survived War and Being Used as Hunting Bait. Now, This Rescue Bear Is Winning Awards for Her Nap Skills Masha the rescue bear is the 2025 winner of the FOUR PAWS's annual March Napness competition ...

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Bear hunting in Florida became tabu for many years is because of the atrocities that occurred then and the overwhelming objections that arose as a result. These included reports of pre-hunting ...

A proposal to bring back black bear Hunting in Florida is getting a lot of pushback. GOP Calls for Investigation into Federal Card Charges China signs deal with Russia to build a power plant on ...

Florida wildlife officials this week will hear a proposal to create an annual “limited-entry” black bear hunt, with a December hunting period the first in more than a decade.

ORLANDO, Fla. — A controversial plan to bring back bear hunting in Florida is facing pushback. Protesters gathered at Lake Eola over the weekend to speak out against a new proposal from FWC. If ...

During the fall 2024 hunting seasons, hunters harvested 2,642 bears including at least one in 56 of the state’s 67 counties. As a comparison, hunters reported 2,920 bears to check stations in 2023.

For the first time in recorded history, a black bear in Florida has killed a human. On May 5, a bear attacked an 89-year-old man and his dog in Collier County, marking a tragic end to a long life.

According to the FWC, there were over 3,200 bears in 2015, and more than 3,200 hunters purchases permits to participate. After two days, 295 bears were killed, including 139 in Central Florida.

Morgan Richardson, FWC’s director of hunting and game management, said the agency was proposing a statewide harvest of 187 bears, 18 of them in Central Florida, which includes Orange, Seminole ...

This year’s legislation, Senate Bill 1523, would require DEEP to establish a bear hunting season, which officials say would likely take place in the fall. The bill would also give the agency the ...

Louisiana's fabled black bear became part of American culture in 1902 after President Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot one that had been trapped and tied to a tree by members of his hunting party.