The former director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recently urged Gov. Brian Kemp to block a proposed mine near ...

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 ...

Mining tens of thousands of acres on the Toledo Manufacturing property, which lies at a lower elevation and closer to the swamp than ... water from the Okefenokee, Georgia’s grandest public ...

Kudos to Dick Yarbrough for his outstanding editorial about the Okefenokee ... Swamp and the dangerous threat posed to it by mining. Several of his points bear repeating. First, he indicates that ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - The boundaries of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge will be expanded, following a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The refuge contains the Okefenokee ...

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.

which makes up roughly 92% of the Okefenokee Swamp, for consideration to be on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and is made up of more ...