Florida has reopened black bear hunting for the first time in ten years, and you are watching a clash between two very different visions of conservation. Supporters see a tightly controlled season as ...

Tragically, it seems Florida officials learned all the wrong lessons from the 2015 hunt that saw the slaughter of at least 304 black bears in the space of a few days. This year’s hunt was far less ...

Florida's first black bear hunt in ten years is scheduled to begin on December 6, pending a court challenge. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission issued 187 permits for the hunt, ...

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – Next week, Florida’s first bear hunt in a decade is set to begin. A judge in Tallahassee refused to halt the hunt on Monday. While activists presented their arguments to stop ...

A new bill in the Mississippi Legislature could reintroduce black bear hunting for the first time in nearly a century. The proposed legislation would authorize the state's wildlife department to ...