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.

In a letter to Kemp dated Jan 15 - five days before leaving office to make way for the incoming Trump administration - then-FWS Director Martha Williams called the Okefenokee “o ...

FOLKSTON, Ga. (WSAV) – The Okefenokee Swamp in southern Georgia is a national wildlife refuge, one that locals say could be under threat if a proposal to mine there goes through. For Charlene ...

this nomination reminds us that we are talking about one of the most significant ecosystems in the world.” Currently, the Okefenokee Swamp is set to be the site of a potential titanium dioxide ...

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. (AP) — A federal agency said Friday that it has approved a plan to expand the Okefenokee Swamp's vast wildlife refuge, setting up a potential buyout offer for land intended for a ...

Today’s lawsuit, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, notes that the Corps’ action opens wetlands that are critical to the health of the iconic Okefenokee Swamp to destruction by a ...

Measuring in at more than 425,000 acres, Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp is renowned for its pristine forests and wealth of indigenous Peach State wildlife, with Stephen C. Foster State Park serving ...