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WKRG on MSN1h
Florida Wildlife officials give best ways to keep bears from wandering onto property
Florida Wildlife officials recognize that residents may see more bears this time of year because most have come out of ...
WUSF Public Media2h
Group to rally Saturday in 13 Florida cities in opposition to proposed statewide bear hunt
"The only justification the FWC [Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission] has given for having the hunt is to offer an ...
Gulf Breeze bear attack is the first since 2017. Here's a look at the numbers
In 2017, a Gulf Breeze man received non-life-threatening injuries in a bear attack similar to Thursday's. According to ...
FOX 35 Orlando1d
Florida bear hunt: FWC releases proposed guidelines of what would become annual event
Florida wildlife officials will review a proposal next week to establish an annual limited-entry black bear hunt — the first such hunt in over a decade. The proposal summary was posted ahead of a ...
WMNF1d
Could Florida allow bear hunting every year?
Opponents have argued that hunting doesn’t reduce human-bear interactions and non-lethal options are better to address bear ...
Tampa Free Press on MSN1d
FWC Memo Outlines Potential Black Bear Hunt In Florida Amid First Recorded Fatal Attack
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has released a memo providing the first detailed look at what a ...
WTAP2d
Florida confirms first deadly black bear attack in state history
Officials in Florida confirmed that a man and his dog found dead earlier this month were killed by a bear, a first for the ...
Observer Today3d
Hungry bears in Florida and Wyoming
In Florida, a rare and tragic case for the black bear species occurred on May 2. An 89-year-old man, Robert Markel, and his ...
Manatee in care at Florida state park drowned as pool drained, report finds
A 1,000-pound female manatee that was recovering at a Florida state park from a boat strike drowned earlier this year after ...
AOL6d
Florida man, 89, and his dog mauled to death by black bear in state's first fatal attack
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC ... The FWC receives an average of 6,300 bear-related calls ...
Alligator attacks in Florida are rare: FWC
After a woman was killed by an alligator while she was canoeing with her husband in central Florida, questions remain on ...
WPTV6d
Lab tests connect black bear killed by Florida wildlife officers to fatal attack on man and his dog
Lab results have connected one of three black bears killed by wildlife officers in southwest Florida to a fatal attack on a ...