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15,000 alligators live in America’s largest blackwater swamp now eying UNESCO status

15,000 Alligators Live in America’s Largest Blackwater Swamp Now Eying UNESCO Status ...
Yahoo

America’s Largest Blackwater Swamp Is Home to an Estimated 15,000 Alligators—and It May Be the Next UNESCO World Heritage Site

Landscape in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia. Set at the headwaters of the Suwannee and St. Marys rivers in southeastern Georgia, the Okefenokee Swamp is not only one of America’s ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Would Okefenokee mining affect a key aquifer? Likely yes, new study finds.

Many scientists feared a now-scuttled plan to mine next to the Okefenokee Swamp would alter the water levels of the refuge. The mining company itself disputed those claims, arguing the water it ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Georgia’s leaders failed the Okefenokee — and us

Pogo Possum, a product of the Okefenokee Swamp and cartoonist Walt Kelly’s imagination, once famously said, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” When it comes to defending Pogo’s Okefenokee Swamp ...