The Florida-Times Union reports that the Nature Conservancy is giving Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge (located in southern Georgia and northern Florida) a big helping hand:

A 500-acre piece of land that burned during a 2007 wildfire is under new ownership and will get a different species of trees.
The land is part of three tracts totaling 1,046 [...]

Back in August of 2009, this blog reported on the Tour de Turtles, which was created by Caribbean Conservation Corporation, with help from sponsors and partners, and involves following the marathon migration of sea turtles, representing different species, from their nesting beaches to their foraging grounds.
The 2010 turtles are now being tracked, and a you [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service just posted a video about the problem of sea level rise at Bulls Island, which is a barrier island at Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina. Over the past several years, staff at Bulls Island have seen the beach disappear before their eyes at an alarming rate, [...]

Several interesting developments have occurred regarding refuges and social media. The Friends of the Savannah Coastal Wildlife Refuges now have a blog, so be sure to check it out: http://blog.coastalrefuges.org/.
Also, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now hitting Facebook in a big way. Be sure to “like” their pages so you can follow [...]

The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, in partnership with the Gulf Response Involvement Team, is looking for over 400 volunteers to help with a 2-week long marsh restoration project within Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana.
Volunteers are needed to plant over 5,000 plugs of smooth and marshhay cordgrass per day [...]

Entertainer Jimmy Buffett and Dragonfly Boatworks in Vero Beach, Florida have donated a boat specially designed to navigate the shallow waters and marshes of the Gulf Coast to retrieve oil-soaked wildlife. The vessel was given to the Friends of the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, the non-profit citizens’ support group for Bon Secour National Wildlife [...]

On July 28, The Conservation Fund, the National Wildlife Refuge Association, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the completion of a major conservation agreement that will protect almost 58 acres of critical habitat for the endangered West Indian (Florida) manatee — land that will be managed as part of Crystal River National Wildlife [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that a Federal Duck Stamp Commemorative Silk Cachet has been issued to help raise money for national wildlife refuges impacted by the Gulf of Mexico BP oil spill.

The cachet features a silk rendering of an award-winning photograph of St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge on the Gulf [...]

In journalism circles, few things are as well regarded as the journalistic integrity of the New York Times. Unfortunately on July 1, the New York Times published a story by Shaila Dewan titled “Black landowners fight to reclaim Ga. ‘heaven,’” which was actually a heavily biased editorial disguised as a news piece that tried to [...]

The National Wildlife Refuge Association issued their first grant from a special fund set up to aid refuge Friends groups responding to the Gulf disaster. The grant went to the Friends of the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge in Alabama. The $3,000 grant is for a project to stabilize the refuge’s sand dunes and attempt [...]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service senior biologist James Harris provides an interesting look at the types of oil spill booms being deployed to help reduce the impact of the BP oil spill on Gulf Coast national wildlife refuges.

Sea turtle eggs are being removed from nests by responders on Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge in Alabama. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan calls for collecting about 70,000 turtle eggs in up to 800 nests buried in the sand across Florida’s Panhandle and Alabama beaches. The eggs will be relocated to an area [...]