About 20% of Sweden’s brown bear population could be killed this hunting season after licenses were issued for 486 of the animals to culled, despite an outcry from conservation groups.

A rifleman would have wrapped him up then and there. but I’m not a rifleman. All my hunting in the past 25 years has been done with the bow. I was carrying a 65-pound Kodiak model of my own make and ...

How Hunting Bears Protects Their Population Health. ... The largest brown bear ever shot with archery equipment was taken in 2018. A rare break in the rain yielded a spectacular sunset.

But a group of researchers in Scandinavia that has been tracking brown bears there for three decades has started to notice something just a bit different in female bears’ behavior in recent years.

Archery only bear hunting opened Monday for six days in NJ with the last three days allowing muzzleloaders. Shotgun season opens Dec. 9.

The Biden administration is paving the way to reverse its decision to defund school hunting and archery courses offered nationwide after facing significant pushback.

Brown bear hunting season in Sweden lasts either until October 15, or until the 486 permitted animals have been shot. Last year's quota was a record high, at 649 animals, while it was 622 in 2022 ...

Hunting this protected species is forbidden, but lawmakers are debating a bill that would declare open season for the next five years. In parts of rural Romanian, brown bears occasionally wander ...

In areas where the two species overlap, a blonde-coated black bear like this one can easily fool you. Nathan Allred / Adobe Stock. In terms of fur color, black bears can range from black to brown ...

The official number of brown bears in Romania is over 6,000. But the government is not actually sure of the number, and environmental groups argue that it might be as low as 2,000.