While they tend to be solitary creatures, every summer, hundreds of alligators come together in the Okefenokee Swamp. Why is ...

NPCA helped protect Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge from the threat of a damaging mine.

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 ...

A rare 'congregation' of alligators was seen in Stephen C. Foster State Park, on the west side of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. Over 300 ...

Join us on an overnight canoe-camping trip in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia, known for its abundant wildlife. We spotted our first alligator within 30 minutes and encountered ...

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. Credit: AP/Stephen B. Morton ...

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. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton ...

When Twin Pines, an Alabama-based mining company, bought a big chunk of land abutting the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Georgia and announced plans to build a titanium dioxide ...

At 407,000 acres, the Okefenokee is the largest National Wildlife Refuge east of the Mississippi River and provides critical habitat to threatened and endangered species like the red-cockaded ...

The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is being touted by Sonny Perdue, a former two-term Georgia governor who led the Department of Agriculture.

Efforts to make Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge a United Nations-recognized World Heritage Site reinforced a national nonprofit’s decision to buy nearby property to keep it from becoming a ...

ATLANTA — Georgia’s Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge was chosen by President Joe Biden’s administration to be nominated for a spot on the United Nations’ World Heritage List, a honor ...