TAMPA - Manatees in Florida waters are a West Indian subspecies. They are prolific swimmers and will often gather in warm ...

Back in early June, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) helped rescue four dolphins from Gulf World ...

The Florida black bear has come back from numbering just a few hundred decades ago to more than 4,000 bears today. It’s a conservation success story by any measure. We divide the population into seven ...

Florida residents protest against a proposed black bear hunt due to concerns over population data and oversight.

A decades-old mystery just resurfaced in Florida's swamps after experts found something no one had documented since 1991.

Florida wildlife officials are moving forward with plans to reinstate a state-sanctioned bear hunt, a decision drawing both support and opposition in the wake of the state’s first fatal bear attack ...

If the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's proposed rules are approved, it would be the first black bear hunt since 2015.