Drawing roughly 800,000 visitors each year, the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is one of the last intact blackwater swamps in North America and is home to hundreds of plant and animal species, ...

A recently announced land deal presents a second time a mining proposal near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge was thwarted due to public outcry. (Joe Cook/Georgia Rivers) Environmentalists are ...

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 over ...

CHARLTON COUNTY, Ga. — The Conservation Fund, a national nonprofit, announced Friday it has purchased the proposed site of a deep earth mine near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, effectively ...