Friends of Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) will present its August Second Sunday Program, Our Dynamic Sun, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 10, at the Guadagno ...

Environmentalists are celebrating a rare win of keeping a mining operation from opening up next to a National Wildlife refuge in South Georgia.

"I just want to say thanks to my family for putting up with 10 days of camping in the swamp with the heat and the bugs," Kiger ... just outside the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. It's unknown ...

About a year ago, opponents determined to stop an Alabama company from mining next to the Okefenokee Swamp were running out of options. Here's how a deal came together.

Okefenokee swamp appears to be a mercury hotspot. A recent study out of the University of Georgia reveals alligators living in the Okefenokee Swamp have high levels of mercury. Scientists call the ...

After securing the deal to halt a mine right on the edge of Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, The Conservation Fund said public pressure played a huge role in scoring a win for land conservation.

The Conservation Fund ensures Okefenokee refuge will remain wild by purchasing nearly 8,000 acre property near swamp.

The nonprofit Conservation Fund acquired nearly 8,000 acres of land near Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, protecting the ecosystem against a proposed titanium mine. A decade after the U.S. EPA updated its ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A conservation group said Friday it has reached a $60 million deal to buy land outside the Okefenokee Swamp from a mining company that environmentalists spent years battling ov… ...