Animal Rights

Listen: The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted to bring back bear hunts in the state. Commissioners voted 4-1 in favor of the bear hunt during a meeting in Ocala Wednesday.  FWC staff proposed...

The bill eliminates a requirement that Florida’s 2 thoroughbred horse tracks hold races to be able to offer other types of gambling.

Listen: A new University of Florida study sheds light on how the world’s most commonly used herbicide may threaten the health of manatees.  Researchers took blood samples from wild manatees. They added a chemical called...

Jodie Wiederkehr, Executive Director of Chicago Alliance for Animals recounts details of how CAA was formed in 2015.

Florida voters are deciding on six amendments this November, including the most widely debated and controversial measures that would enshrine abortion rights and legalize marijuana. But also on the ballot is Amendment 2. If passed,...

Listen: Getting an emotional support animal on a Hillsborough County Public School’s campus may become more difficult.  A proposed policy at a School Board workshop would tighten restrictions and require a committee to make a...

Listen: Famous Chimpanzee expert and conservationist Jane Goodall is speaking in St. Petersburg in September. The two-day event comes as Florida faces the national spotlight for environmental issues.  Dr. Jane Goodall’s discovery in 1960 that...

Rethinking Rescue: Dog Lady and the Story of America’s Forgotten People and Pets – Carol Mithers Rethinking Rescue boldly confronts two of the biggest challenges of our time—poverty and homelessness—in asking the question: Who deserves...

The FWC approved new rules for anglers on the Sunshine Skyway to protect pelicans. One group says the rules are not being enforced.

Listen: More than a third of adult gopher tortoises have died at a nature preserve in St. Petersburg, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating. Axios Tampa Bay reports surveyors conducting a...

The state House gave final approval to a bill that would bolster self-defense arguments for people who kill bears on their property.

A controversial effort to strengthen self-defense arguments for people who shoot bears on their property is headed back to the Florida House.