An Ontario wildlife refuge held a "sweet 16" birthday party for one of its polar bears, complete with a car and an oversized ...

Florida wildlife officials say the state's first black bear hunt in a decade killed 52 bears. The count was announced Tuesday ...

This month, Florida allowed the first black bear hunt in 10 years after the last one was ended abruptly over too many killed.

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, which sets rules for hunting, met Dec. 17 and loosened restrictions on trackers.

The 2025 New Jersey bear hunt will be extended four days after the number of bears killed fell just shy of the harvest rate threshold at the end of the second session. There were 86 bears killed in ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Florida’s controversial bear hunt will cross over the one-week threshold on Saturday, but the number of bears that have been hunted remains a mystery. A total of 172 permits ...

Florida is holding a controversial black bear hunt that started Dec. 6 and ends Dec. 28. Proponents of the hunt argue that bears have lost their fear of humans and pose a danger to property and pets.

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 ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — In spite of opposition from wildlife advocates, the first black bear hunt in Florida since 2015, will run from Dec. 6 through Dec. 28, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — One of the 172 hunters selected in a state lottery for the right to hunt a Florida black bear said he plans to use the permit as intended: to harvest a bear. Each permit holder ...