Here's what to know about Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp before planning a visit. America’s Largest Blackwater Swamp Is Home to an Estimated 15,000 Alligators—and It May Be the Next UNESCO World ...

Okefenokee Swamp Park raised $600,000 to pay for the nearly 300-page application packet, said Kim Bednarek, the nonprofit’s executive director. The bid for World Heritage status still needs U.S ...

It started moving in earnest in 2023 as the nonprofit Okefenokee Swamp Park, which operates boat tours and other concessions within the refuge, signed an agreement to work on an application with ...

[The Okefenokee Swamp is] being protected, they’re being compensated for it, and we can move forward now.” U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, had opposed the project from Washington.

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 ...

The Brief. A plan to mine near the border of Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp has been stopped after years of battles with conservationists. Alabama's Twin Pines had worked since 2019 to obtain permits ...

There is overwhelming support for protecting the swamp from mining and having our state leaders bring the Okefenokee Protection Act to a vote. Some legislators blocking the vote will cite ...

Okefenokee Swamp Park raised $600,000 to pay for the nearly 300-page application packet, said Kim Bednarek, the nonprofit's executive director. The bid for World Heritage status still needs U.S ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — President Donald Trump's former agriculture secretary is urging the administration to support adding a vast, federally protected wildlife refuge in the Okefenokee Swamp to a ...

President Donald Trump's former agriculture secretary wants the administration to support adding the Okefenokee Swamp's vast wildlife refuge to a United Nations list of World Heritage site.