A Florida wildlife advocacy group has filed an injunction against the state’s wildlife commission in an attempt to halt a controversial black bear hunt scheduled for December.

Bear Warriors United, based in Oviedo, filed the legal challenge last week against the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), seeking to stop the hunt planned for Dec. 6-28.

“The No. 1 argument all day long, all week long, all month long, all year long, is that they don’t have the science to back up an overpopulation of bears,” said attorney Raquel Levy of Atlantic Law Center in Daytona Beach, who is handling the case pro bono.

The legal challenge questions the FWC’s data and decision-making process.

According to the injunction, the commission was established to ensure “that sound research, scie

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