{"id":141877,"date":"2025-12-06T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141877"},"modified":"2025-12-06T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:24:07","slug":"florida-kicks-off-first-black-bear-hunt-in-a-decade-despite-outcryunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141877","title":{"rendered":"Florida kicks off first black bear hunt in a decade, despite outcryUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostFor the first time in a decade, hunters armed with rifles and crossbows are fanning out across Florida\u2019s swamps and flatwoods to legally hunt the Florida black bear, over the vocal opposition of critics.<br \/>\nThe state-sanctioned hunt began on Saturday, after drawing more than 160,000 applications for a far more limited number of hunting permits, including from opponents who are trying to reduce the number of bears killed in this year\u2019s hunt, the state\u2019s first since 2015.<br \/>\nThe Florida Fish and&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3335483\/florida-kicks-first-black-bear-hunt-decade-despite-outcry?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostFor the first time in a decade, hunters armed with rifles and crossbows are fanning out across Florida\u2019s swamps and flatwoods&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141877"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}