The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is holding a series of virtual public meetings this week, as it asks ...

While urban bear counters have increased in Florida, some fear a bear hunt could leave more dead than necessary.

Florida hosts the "Python Challenge." The 10-day event attracts hunters to the Everglades to help remove the invasive Burmese ...

State wildlife officials are drafting a detailed plan for a bear hunt — the first in a decade — over three weeks in December, ...

with some hunts happening in North Florida. Six Big Bend counties, including Leon, Hamilton and Suwannee counties, would be included in a bear hunting zone, according to proposals discussed in ...

Florida wildlife officials are considering a proposal to allow bear hunting for the first time in nearly a decade. The proposed hunt, scheduled for December, would last three weeks — significantly ...

According to the FWC, the black bear population has come back from just several hundred bears in the 1970s to over 4,000 ...

Rodney Barreto, a developer, is likely headed back to the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission despite the ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will hold three virtual meetings in April to discuss a possible black bear hunt. The FWC is considering a hunt due to the bear ...

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 ...