The AJC has learned a former top U.S. wildlife official wrote Gov. Brian Kemp to warn that a mine planned near the Okefenokee Swamp would threaten the fragile ecosystem.
The Okefenokee Swamp is intact due in large part to the establishment of the refuge in 1937. The Swamp comprises the headwaters of two rivers, it provides habitat for a myriad of wildlife species, ...
The former director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recently urged Gov. Brian Kemp to block a proposed mine near ...
"This minor expansion will help further conservation efforts for the swamp along with the threatened and endangered species that inhabit it,” Michael Lusk, the Okefenokee refuge manager ...
The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, encompassing more than 400,000 acres between the border of Georgia and Florida, is a crucial refuge for endangered and ...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Greater Okefenokee Association of Landowners recognize the importance of fire to the swamp and work together to suppress fires on the edge of the swamp ...
In a letter to Kemp dated Jan 15 – five days before leaving office to make way for the incoming Trump administration – ...
The Okefenokee Swamp is one of the largest remaining intact freshwater ... more than 1.7 million members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places. The ...