A key part of the Okefenokee Swamp was rescued by conservationists from mining, but this natural habitat is still in danger, ...

Members of the Georgia State House have once again introduced bills to protect the Okefenokee Swamp from mining threats. The Okefenokee was named a National Wildlife Refuge in 1937, and provides ...

Pogo Possum, a product of the Okefenokee Swamp and cartoonist Walt Kelly’s imagination, once famously said, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” When it comes to defending Pogo’s Okefenokee Swamp ...

Georgia’s state parks have a lot to offer during the day: meandering trails, mountain views, rushing rivers, and spectacular ...

Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp is considered one of the world’s most unique environments. A mining company from Alabama, Twin Pines Minerals, LLC, is lobbying to mine for titanium dioxide at a location ...

GEORGIA — U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff announced he was backing a proposal to expand the Okefenokee Wildlife Regue in Georgia to protect the land, adding to the list of people contesting plans to mine the ...

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 ...

GEORGIA — The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Friday that it would nominate the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, which makes up roughly 92% of the Okefenokee Swamp, for consideration to ...

Movie star Leonardo DiCaprio and Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff are calling on Georgia regulators to block a mining project advancing near the Okefenokee swamp, the largest blackwater swamp in the nation.