That’s Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park in Copeland, Florida – the botanical Amazon of North America that somehow remains Florida’s best-kept secret. You know how people are always saying, “I’m ...

Fantasizing about Florida alligators eating immigrants is old racism repackaged in a new Alligator Alcatraz detention camp.

Potentially torturous conditions for undocumented immigrants are being celebrated — and even monetized — by the Republican ...

The Tallahassee Museum is gearing up for the 47th annual Swamp Stomp music festival, which is set to kick off Saturday, July ...

"South Carolina's gators are ready. And they're not big on paperwork. If I was Governor, we'd be bringing Alligator Alcatraz" to S.C., Mace said.

The Conservation Fund announced Friday that it had agreed to buy Twin Pines Minerals’ property on Trail Ridge near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, ending a six-year effort to protect ...

The Maurepas Swamp diversion is expected to replenish around 45,000 acres of wetlands over the next 50 years, protecting Louisiana residents in nearby parishes from storm surge while reviving a ...

A conservation group purchased land near the swamp and wildlife refuge to halt a company’s bid to mine for titanium. A high-profile, yearslong fight over a proposal to mine near the nation’s ...

A mining threat to the Okefenokee Swamp ends as Twin Pines Minerals sells land to The Conservation Fund to protect vital wildlife and ecosystems.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which oversees the Okefenokee refuge, in January approved a plan to expand the refuge by buying up to 22,000 acres (8,900) along its perimeter from private owners.

Land deal ends controversial mining fight near Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp The $60 million purchase by the Conservation Fund will halt a proposed titanium mine along the ends of North America’s ...

Swamp beacons are an amphibious fungus, they can grow out of the water but prefer waterlogged, oxygen-poor (anaerobic) conditions, preferably standing water. The tiny bright orange elongated tops ...