World Heritage status is an honor reserved for the planet’s most iconic natural and cultural treasures — places like the Great Barrier Reef and Yellowstone National Park.

SAVANNAH, Ga. — 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 just one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Conservation Fund, a national environmental nonprofit, announced Friday that they had purchased the Twin Pines Mining Site ...

The Okefenokee Swamp is an enormous peat bog 38 miles long by 25 miles wide, created 7,000 years ago. Kenneth Fletcher When I first read about the Okefenokee Swamp as a 10-year-old boy, I immediately ...

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 ...

FILE - The sun sets on the lily pads and floating vegetation in the Chesser Prairie inside the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge on March 30, 2022, in Folkston, Ga ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Conservation Fund, a national environmental nonprofit, announced Friday that they had purchased the Twin Pines Mining Site near Trail Ridge outside of the Okefenokee National ...