Conservation

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (8+ words) The longest python captured measured nearly 17 feet....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (572+ words) A documentary about Atlanta’s tree canopy has caught the attention of lawmakers in Brookhaven, a metro Atlanta city that takes great measures to protect the environment through law and conservation. “The Tree Economy,” a film by James Schroeder, explores how…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (257+ words) Just what 2026 needs: a flying snake was found living in a cave in Cambodia. Researchers have discovered several rare and even new species during a several-year biodiversity study, CBS News reported. The study participants scoured more than 60 limestone caves in…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (166+ words) The Washington Post The state plans to buy about 4,000 acres near Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge from a conservation group, which acquired the land to halt a proposed titanium mine. For years, the thousands of acres of land at the edge…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago   (270+ words) On Dec. 18, a group of preservationists released groups of previously endangered woodpeckers to their new home in South Georgia. The red-cockaded woodpecker, or RCW for short, is a small, black-and-white bird that primarily lived in Georgia’s longleaf pine savannas, which…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (526+ words) Conservation groups and their state and federal partners cheered the completion of a deal Monday they say will protect more than 10,000 acres of ecologically valuable and endangered forests straddling the Alabama-Georgia border. The Conservation Fund, a nonprofit specializing in acquiring…...

10+ mon, 1+ day ago   (631+ words) “Don’t cop out, cop in,” Chavis calls for activists to use their power at the upcoming United Nations COP30 conference. Dr. Benjamin Chavis, president/CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), was celebrated as the father of the environmental justice…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (190+ words) In a new series from Appen Media and the North Fulton Master Gardeners, rotating columnists will explore horticulture topics like herbs, insects and wildlife conservation. Find the series here. The front view of Buffalo Rock. What can be discovered on…...

11+ mon, 5+ day ago   (448+ words) The Chattahoochee Nature Center sits on 127 acres in Roswell. Support the work by giving to the Fall Fundraiser here. In the 1970s, a movement began to conserve land and create green space along the Chattahoochee River in Roswell. John Ripley Forbes…...

11+ mon, 6+ day ago   (175+ words) As my eyes scanned the scattered piles of gray rocks and boulders at the base of a steep mountain, my ears concentrated on high-pitched “eep” calls coming from inside the talus slope. After much searching, we had found a colony…...