Articles for tag: american alligator, georgia wildlife, nature conservation, nature news, Wildlife Comeback

A crocodile is resting underwater on the shore.

Georgia’s Gators Are Thriving Again

Suhail Ahmed

  For decades, the American alligator was a Southern ghost – present mostly in memory, hammered by unregulated hunting and shrinking wetlands. Today, Georgia’s blackwater rivers tell a different story: eyeshine glints at dusk, nest mounds rise on marsh edges, and biologists say the comeback is no fluke. The turnaround didn’t happen by accident; it’s ...