{"id":17029,"date":"2025-10-24T14:32:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conservancy.org\/?p=17029"},"modified":"2025-10-27T11:51:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:51:38","slug":"ask-the-governor-to-call-off-the-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservancy.org\/ask-the-governor-to-call-off-the-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Governor to end the hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At their August 2025 meeting, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) voted to adopt new rules allowing annual hunts on Florida black bears, despite the serious concerns raised by the public. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida was present to testify before the Commissioners and share our analysis showing flaws in the hunt program, as well as to ring the alarm about how the hunt could negatively impact the recovery of disconnected bear subpopulations that are struggling to even survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/support.conservancy.org\/site\/Advocacy?id=201&amp;pagename=homepage\"><strong>TAKE ACTION<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, without much discussion, the FWC Commissioners voted to approve the 2025 Florida black bear hunt, including aspects of the rule that eliminate opportunities for public comment on future hunt years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without intervention, the Florida black bear hunt is scheduled to begin on December 6, 2025. <a>Join us in asking Governor DeSantis <\/a>to call off the hunt and, instead, prioritize critical conservation actions such as securing trash, protecting corridors, and reducing roadkills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/support.conservancy.org\/site\/Advocacy?id=201&amp;pagename=homepage\"><strong>TAKE ACTION<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about our advocacy on this issue here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservancy.org\/bears\">conservancy.org\/bears<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At their August 2025 meeting, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) voted to adopt new rules allowing annual hunts on Florida black bears, despite the serious concerns raised&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":17036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservancy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservancy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservancy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservancy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservancy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17029"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/conservancy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17039,"href":"https:\/\/conservancy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17029\/revisions\/17039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservancy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservancy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservancy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservancy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}