NPCA helped protect Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge from the threat of a damaging mine.

The swamp is also home to hundreds of kinds of plants and animals, including threatened and endangered species like the red-cockaded woodpecker, indigo snake and wood stork.

The Okefenokee is the largest U.S. refuge east of the Mississippi River, covering nearly 630 square miles (1,630 square kilometers) in southeast Georgia.

The Alabama company that planned to mine titanium dioxide next to the Okefenokee Swamp has agreed to sell its property to an environmental fund, ending - for now - a threat to more than 350,000 ...

The Okefenokee is huge, covering hundreds of miles, but it is shallow — only two feet deep in many places — and it isn’t fed by any waterways. Rain is the swamp’s only source of replenishment.

The swamp is also home to hundreds of kinds of plants and animals, including threatened and endangered species like the red-cockaded woodpecker, indigo snake and wood stork. It forms the headwaters of ...

Sixteen months after Twin Pines Minerals was told to pay a $2 million surety bond to start mining near Okefenokee Swamp, nothing has moved forward.

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 ...