A sprawling swamp in Georgia on Saturday joined Yellowstone National Park, the Great Barrier Reef, the Taj Mahal and other iconic places around the globe as the latest UNESCO World Heritage site.

The swamp, already a National Wildlife Refuge, is the first World Heritage destination in Georgia. The Okefenokee Swamp was first earmarked as a potential World Heritage site in 1982, but wasn’t ...

The United Nations' list of World Heritage Sites is a bit longer this morning because of a newly added swamp. The Okefenokee Swamp straddles part of the border between Georgia and Florida, and it's ...

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Update: July 25, 2026. The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List today at a U.N. committee meeting. It was the only new U.S. site to be inscribed, ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Pond Scum At the edge of the Deep Swamp stands Snappy and his gang. Anxious to proceed, they press on as a rite of passage for all young pond dwellers. What ...

Now that I've experienced snakes, scorpions and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, I consider myself an old-time resident of Tucson. First I encountered a large snake coiled up at my front door. I was ...

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 ...