To nature lovers like Charles Seabrook, swamps are magical, teeming with wildlife, and places of tranquility filled with otherworldly beauty.

UNESCO has added the Okefenokee Swamp to its World Heritage list, giving international recognition to a vast freshwater landscape in the Southeast where alligators, bears, otters, and unusually long ...

One of the Alligators of Okefenokee Swamp. At the headwaters of the Suwannee and St. Marys rivers, the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is known for its biodiversity. This area is so diverse that ...

Before Richard Rhodes became an interpretive naturalist who searches for swamp critters, he made a living hunting them. As an invasive species hunter in South Florida, Rhodes honed his understanding ...

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Share this page on Twitter Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Email Share this page on Print republish OKEFENOKEE SWAMP, Ga. — Boating on a canal at the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge ...

BUSAN, South Korea — Sara Aicher has spent much of her life around the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. For 31 years, Aicher worked as the refuge’s wildlife biologist, keeping watch over the swamp ...

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 ...

The Okefenokee swamp is poised to join awe-inspiring U.S. landscapes including the Grand Canyon and the Everglades as the nation’s 27th World Heritage Site, a designation a United Nations committee ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red sundews are known for suffocating insects. North America's largest blackwater swamp, the Okefenokee is a biodiverse wonderland ...