NEW @CFACT Conservation Country Report: We investigate a Biden-era policy to designate Okefenokee Swamp a @UNESCO World Heritage Site. Locals say this isn’t America First. @WhiteHouse @StateDept withdrew from UNESCO in July. Here’s another thing that deserves attention,… pic.twitter.com/9XWoY26mxG
— Gabriella Hoffman (@Gabby_Hoffman) December 9, 2025
Drew Jones, Charlton County, Georgia Commissioner: “I don’t like any organization that I would consider an entangling alliance. Many of the UNESCO members are adversarial nations. China, Russia, Afghanistan, all would sit around a table and potentially vote on what should be domestic issues.
We’re a highly regulated, highly bureaucratic country. We’ve got the Department of the Interior, EPD(Env. Protection Division), and EPA. So, there could be concerns about the property adjacent to the swamp. They could come along and say no hunting, no clear-cutting, no herbiciding outside the refuge boundary. They could say, ‘Oh, we need a buffer zone.’ You know, ‘there’s hunting too close. There’s logging too close.’”
Brooks Strickland, Americans for the Okefenokee: “We’re talking about opening our doors to foreign entities. Who runs the United Nations? They’re an international body, and they’re influenced by all the countries that make them up.”
