Why should you care about Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge?
It's the largest black water swamp in the United States.
It's home to threatened and endangered species.
Its wilderness is unharmed by human interference.
AND it's under threat by mining (yet again).

Learn more about how you can help at defenders.org.

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The largest black water swamp in the United States.
Home to threatened and endangered species.
Wilderness is unharmed by human interference.

This is why you should care about Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.

The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge spans nearly half a million acres with unparalleled wild character, thriving biodiversity and cultural significance.

Its vast and intact ecosystems support hundreds of species of plants and animals, including endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers and threatened eastern indigo snakes.

But this pristine landscape and proposed world heritage site is threatened yet again - this time by Twin Pines, a company whose projects are notorious for widespread fish kills
and illegal discharge of mining waste.

Twin Pines’ proposed project would eventually destroy nearly 8,000 acres of land
within just 400 feet of the Okefenokee.

The pumping of groundwater from the swamp’s edge could drastically undermine the Okefenokee’s ability to sustain itself, resulting in catastrophe for alligators, salamanders, and wading birds such as the threatened wood stork, which depend on predictable
seasonal fluctuations in water levels.

We simply cannot allow greed and selfish corporate interest to consume our last wild places.

Defenders and our partners continue to fight this exploitation every step of the way.

Learn more about how you can help at defenders.org.

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