ATLANTA (WRBL) — U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff released a statement addressing the Okefenokee Swamp Land deal on Friday and discussed taking the proper steps to continue to preserve the land and protect it ...

Don’t look now but there is an elephant in the room. Well, it’s not a room exactly. It is our state government. And it’s not ...

As you may be aware by now, a major victory has been declared in the fight to stop Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals from strip mining land adjacent to our Okefenokee National Wildlife Reserve in ...

Landscape in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia. Set at the headwaters of the Suwannee and St. Marys rivers in southeastern Georgia, the Okefenokee Swamp is not only one of America’s ...

The Okefenokee creates deep personal connections with visitors, fostering a sense of shared history and appreciation for nature. Conservation efforts, including the Okefenokee's nomination to the ...

In the final days of President Joe Biden’s administration, the federal government’s top wildlife official wrote Gov. Brian Kemp to warn that a mine planned at the edge of Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp ...

To David Walter Banks, there’s something special about the Okefenokee Swamp, the largest blackwater swamp in North America. There’s a mystical quality, the photographer says, that’s hard to explain to ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Conservation Fund, a national environmental nonprofit, announced Friday that they had purchased the Twin Pines Mining Site near Trail Ridge outside of the Okefenokee National ...

Conservationists in the South who are working to protect America’s largest remaining blackwater swamp from a proposed mining project just got some encouraging news from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A company that has spent years battling conservationists as it seeks a permit to mine outside the Okefenokee Swamp and its federally protected wildlife refuge needs to do just one ...

There’s something in the water — and in the gators. A University of Georgia ecotoxicology study found there may be elevated levels of mercury in Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp. The alligators were from ...

An alligator at the Okefenokee Wildlife Refuge. A new study shows the gators at the Okefenokee have higher levels of mercury in them than other places in the South. Kristen Zemaitis Researchers found ...