Floridians who want to apply for a permit to participate in Florida’s 2026 bear hunt can begin submitting applications Friday morning.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Florida black bear is shown in this 2019 file photo. State wildlife officials plan for a bear hunt in Florida in December, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than half the bears killed during December's Florida bear hunt were from the state's Panhandle, but the biggest animal killed ...

Just the phrase “invasive pythons” should have us quaking in our snake boots. In the Florida Everglades, Burmese pythons have ...

Last year’s season was the first since 2015 and sparked backlash from animal rights organizations. Now, it returns with more permits and new rules around private-land use.

Florida’s black bear population has risen from a few hundred animals in the 1970s to more than 4,000 today. After years of bear population increases and growing numbers of human-bear conflicts, the ...

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, ...

Florida is less than a week into its 2025 Black Bear Hunt, but we still don’t know how many bears have been harvested, or even if any hunters have bagged a single bear yet. When News 6 asked the ...

Florida’s black bear hunt is scheduled to go forward next month despite its unpopularity and a lack of recent population studies to know if the mammal’s numbers are in decline. The Florida Fish and ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google For the first time in a decade, hunters armed with rifles and crossbows are fanning out across Florida’s swamps and ...

Opponents of Florida's first black bear hunt in a decade rallied at the state capitol on Monday amid efforts to try and prevent bears from being killed next month in four areas across the state. In ...

Florida is home to two subspecies of wild turkey, with a statewide population between 80,000 and 100,000. Hunting a wild turkey for Thanksgiving is possible, but the hunting season occurs in the ...