A unique project to resuscitate the dying Maurepas Swamp, an overlooked treasure nestled between New Orleans and Baton Rouge along Interstate 10, broke ground on Tuesday. The project will reunite one ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Ground was broken Tuesday, December 3, on a project to help revitalize the Maurepas Swamp’s more than 45,000 acres. According to the Louisiana Coastal Protection and ...

On Tuesday, the state’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) officially began to reconnect the Mississippi River with the Maurepas Swamp, a degraded and submerged swamp forest directly ...

MT. AIRY, La. (WVUE) - State, local and federal leaders broke ground Tuesday (Dec. 3) on a project to divert Mississippi River water down a 5½-mile channel, and save a dying ecosystem in the process.

GRAMERCY, La. (WVUE) - Motorists heading up Interstate 10 near Gramercy might view the Maurepas Swamp as a thriving, living Louisiana postcard. Yet, deeper inside the swamp, something is horribly ...

The land deal announced Friday presents a second time a mining proposal near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge was thwarted due to public outcry. Joe Cook/Georgia Rivers An Alabama-based company ...

In this mural by artist Peach Tao, a Swamp Sparrow goes fishing in a fantastical landscape full of bright color, whimsical ...

CHARLTON COUNTY, Ga. — The Conservation Fund, a national nonprofit, announced Friday it has purchased the proposed site of a deep earth mine near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, effectively ...

A company that has spent years battling conservationists as it seeks a permit to mine outside the Okefenokee Swamp and its federally protected wildlife refuge needs to do just one thing before ...