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 list ...

There's July 4th, Pride Month, and Juneteenth, but there's one more summer tradition you may not know about. There are plenty of alligators in south Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp. They tend to be ...

Conservationists are celebrating a win in southern Georgia. On June 20, The Conservation Fund (TCF) announced that it had purchased the land and mineral rights of 7,765 acres adjacent to the ...

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 it ...

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 ...

Ms. Renkl, a contributing Opinion writer, reports from Nashville on flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. When Twin Pines, an Alabama-based mining company, bought a big chunk of ...

Okefenokee advocates delivered over 24,000 signatures and children's art to Governor Kemp, urging him to back legislation ...

Over the past three years, photographer David Walter Banks has spent nearly 70 nights alone in the Okefenokee Swamp. His gorgeous, almost psychedelic images have been published in his new book, ...

The nighttime gathering of alligators offered researchers a rare chance to view a congregation of predators exhibiting eyeshine in Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp. NASA Instagram photo A scene straight out ...

After six years, a controversial bid to mine next door to Georgia’s famed Okefenokee Swamp is no more. The Conservation Fund, a nonprofit specializing in acquiring at-risk lands, announced Friday it ...