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Sightings of Black bears in the Natural State are rising due to late spring after leaving winter dens in the latter part of ...
The two-month-old male black bear cub arrived at the shelter 'weak, underweight and alone' after being orphaned in the forest ...
Amid growing controversy over the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency’s decision to release three orphaned bear cubs into the wild instead of move them to Appalachian Bear Rescue, TWRA’s former chief ...
The San Diego Humane Society announced that it took in a 2-month-old black bear cub, which was described as 'weak' and ...
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency picked up the bear cubs on May 18 after their mom was hit and killed by a vehicle in Sullivan County.
State wildlife officials had to carefully maneuver around a black bear sow that was not about to leave her distressed cub on ...
The rescue was considered “unusual” as the 2-month-old bruin was the youngest such bear the wildlife center had ever taken in ...
News 5 received a series of comments and questions after we aired footage from the TWRA showing the release of bear cubs into ...
Three cubs were rescued after their mother was killed by a car, they were released back into the wild to a remote area of the ...
The TWRA said it is continuing to work with the Appalachian Bear Rescue, but that the rescue was unable to take in new cubs.
On the morning of May 18, 2025, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) responded to a report of a sow black bear that had been struck and killed by a vehicle along U.S. Highway 19E in Sullivan ...