Florida's alligator hunting season runs from August 15 to November 8, 2025. Permits are awarded via a multi-phase application process that started on May 2 and continues through June. Costs for ...

After a 10-foot-long alligator was spotted on the I-95 median in Jacksonville, Florida, law enforcement officers were forced ...

Young said the agency increased the allotment for the 2025 statewide alligator hunt by 1,000 tags. Between the hunt and alligator program, up to 15,000 alligators were taken out of the wild in ...

Young said FWC increased the allotment for the 2025 statewide alligator hunt by 1,000 tags. Between the hunt and SNAP program, up to 15,000 alligators were taken out of the wild in 2023 ...

Conservation efforts undertaken by the states in the 1960s to simultaneously regulate alligator hunting while incentivizing private land owners to view gators and wetlands as an asset, not a ...

Up to 15,000 gators were taken from the wild in the last year, Johnson said, and the allotment for the statewide alligator hunt was increased by 1,000 in 2025.