Berry College Environmental Studies

04/06/2024

Thank you for your hard work CRBI!!!

For years, tire fees paid by Georgians that were supposed to go toward cleaning up illegal dump sites, among other things, were siphoned off for other state costs. It was a practice that was legal until voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2020.

03/31/2024

A measure that would pause permitting of some new mines near the Okefenokee Swamp faces an uncertain fate in the Georgia Senate amid backlash from key Republican leaders on the final day of the legislative session.

03/13/2024

"What is more important to the next generation of Georgians: the preservation of one of America’s ecological treasures or the mining of a mineral most commonly used in toothpaste whitener and frosted donuts?"

We vote Okefenokee!

"What is more important to the next generation of Georgians: the preservation of one of America’s ecological treasures or the mining of a mineral most commonly used in toothpaste whitener and frosted donuts?"

Andrew Morse, president and publisher of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, urged Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and House Speaker Jon Burns to preserve Georgia’s magnificent Okefenokee Swamp in a editorial on the front page of the Sunday paper.

Mike Luckovick sketched the concerned wildlife in today's cartoon.

Many are speaking up to save the swamp, and yours is needed too!

Visit garivers.org/protectokefenokee to learn how you can speak up for the Okefenokee.

Read the full editorial on AJC at https://www.ajc.com/opinion/georgia-governor-and-speaker-must-preserve-singular-wonder-of-the-okefenokee/JSFIZKSKPFAKHH33C2SKCIZXBQ/

11/17/2022

11/17/2022

Berry College faculty and students love working with Ani Escobar the amazing biologist featured in this video!

In this video, learn about the native freshwater mussels in the upper Coosa watershed, threats they face, and actions we are taking to restore the watershed....

11/10/2022

08/26/2022

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is offering a $1,000 grant to a kindergarten through fifth-grade public or private school teacher in the state who demonstrates exceptional energy and innovation

06/19/2022

Stacie Marshall moves back to her ancestral farm in Dirt Town Valley, Georgia, USA. She wrestles with the reality of her farm having held enslaved humans and...

06/10/2020

J. Drew Lanham believes that “conserving birds and their habitat [is] a moral mission that needs the broadest and most diverse audience possible to be succes...