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cfact and Gabriella Hoffman
In Episode 21 of Conservation Country, host @GabriellaHoffman investigates a Biden-era policy to designate Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site.
She found locals overwhelmingly oppose this policy. They don’t want the United Nations in their backyard.
The Trump administration withdrew from UNESCO in July 2025 effective December 31, 2025. Tune in to learn more.
Filmed and edited by @itsmadisonhughes.
#OkefenokeeSwamp #UNESCO #ConservationCountry
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These indigenous names, such as “Okefenokee Swamp”, remind me very much of Mr Fox Mulder. Lake Okobogee, was one such place in the X Files. Cue the killer alligator.
There is so much that needs saving from the UNhinged… Take the one European cuisine that demands the most pots, pans and utensils etc – ie creates the most washing up, and I know from bitter experience – and then accord it world heritage status…
Italian cuisine granted world heritage status by UNESCO – Sky News
Tackling the male [washing up] menace…
First edition of UNESCO’s Transforming MEN’talities Master Class
https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/first-edition-unescos-transforming-mentalities-master-class
Another UN/Marxist creep into our sovereignty. This has nothing to do with protecting a swamp and everything to do with gaining a foothold of control over us. We can’t remain asleep at the wheel and expect them to leave us alone. Europe is lost, don’t let it happen to America.
I got caught in a fierce lightning storm in the middle of this swamp in a metal fishing boat on the Swanee River- seeing many lightning strikes hit trees not far away- while ‘gators swam in the river- couldn’t see much with my wet, thick glasses- back in ’74. 🙂
The ranger said it would be a nice day. I swore that if we got out alive I was going to visit that ranger. Got out but he was he off duty. Good thing for him.
But… it’s an amazing place- I recommend it to anyone. I don’t know if there are many fish in the river but there were vast numbers of amazing, large birds.
The ranger said it would be a nice day. Depends on or definition if nice.
Well, it was. Your great experience has given you 50 years of memories.
I was there in the summer of 1970. Yes – recommended.
Legend says the ranger later on became the famous weather and climate predicting scientist James Hansen.
Of Hansen and Greta fame in the New Grimm Tales.
I like it.
We visited it around 20 years ago. The lawn in front of the main admin building had several comotose alligators on it. One daft mother was about to place her one-year-old on top of one to take a photo. I have never seen administrators move so fast or shout so loudly.
The mother explained that she thought they were plastic.
But very much recomended to visit by boat – our boat driver had an encyclopedic knowlege of the place, but keep UNESCO away by every means possible, thay would just spoil it.
Duhhh . . . having a location declared by the UN as a “UNESCO World Heritage Site” does not convey any authority/power for the UN to control what happens at that site.
Need I reference the destruction of Palmyra (UNESCO’s Syrian Arab Republic World Heritage site)?
“All six of Syria’s UNESCO world heritage sites have been damaged by rocket, tank and small-arms fire, some ‘potentially irreversibly, . . .’ “
— https://world.time.com/2012/09/12/syrias-looted-past-how-ancient-artifacts-are-being-traded-for-guns
What? . . . does anyone think the USA would accept UN “security forces” entering its borders to “protect” any of the 26 UNESCO World Heritage Sites that currently exist in the country?
According to Wikipedia (yea…I know), international legal protection comes with UNESCO designation. Once that door is opened you are subject to litigation in US or international courts, political mischief, vandalism by extremist organizations, etc. Haven’t we learned that we should not have to open that door to find out what is behind it? Then again maybe that is the intent.
“International legal protection” is worth the value of the letters used to form that phrase. Haven’t some people learned anything since the UN was formed some 80 years ago???
Evidently, no.
https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/3295837
Horse feathers! It is a political club in the hands of any who harbor ill will against the US. It gives advantage that drains time, treasury, and other resources. Physical force isn’t the only way to prevail in this fractious and litigious world. Readers of this blog are well familiar with how the UN has been used to advance their socialist agenda thru bogus claims of climate Armageddon, without any facts or overt physical acts; get the extremists to do that for them. Judging from your comments, apparently some people haven’t “learned anything since the UN was formed.”
A liberal judge wouldn’t hesitate to put UN regulations above US law.
“…Duhhh . . . “”
A Democrat would.
Robert Conquest’s Third Law:
For example, if you wanted some swamp to mostly dry up, the most reliable way would be handing it to some environmental agency (or UNESCO) to preserve. Any bets?
A quick check showed some beautiful ‘natural places’ but most seemed built by humans, no doubt. Did I see the Komodo Dragon? A century ago we were draining these places. Okey, C. W. 1918. The wet lands of southern Louisiana and their drainage. U. S. Department Agriculture Bulletin. 652:1-67.
We camped at Okefenokee – were walking the dog along the lake shore – the dog immediately went for a swim – then we noticed the sign that said “Don’t Feed the Alligators”. We’re from Colorado – what the hell do we know about alligators? We learned. We got him out – no problem.
Every step away from the UN is a step forward.
Re United Nations world heritage listing.
Be warned.
Colleagues and I discovered and brought into production the world-important Ranger Uranium mines in Australia’s Northern Territory in the 1970-80 era. Uranium sales at present $ values were about $Aust 20,000 million.
Australia’s Federal Government in that era granted our company and partners customary, legitimate Mining Leases an Exploration Licences for a large area around the Ranger mine Leases. The area was similar to the total area of the 10 smallest countries in Europe.
It quickly became clear that powerful interests, international and national, including most NGOs, did not want us to be in control of more uranium exploration/mining, plus other valuable minerals. They wanted control by themselves.
By year 2000, these lands had been through native title claims, national park formation and world heritage status, leading to a federal law stating “No operations for the recovery of minerals are permitted in Kakadu National Park.” The huge, rich Jabiluka uranium mine was part of the lock up, with no thought of re-opening.
We were not even offered discussion of compensation for loss of granted leases/licences, let alone for the future value of emerging new mines at Rangers 4, 19, 68 and others.
I took the Environment Minister through our Court system but the highest court finally issued a judgement failing to address the main complaints and finding that the matters were too complicated for it, the deciding against us on a minor matter of their invention to give the impression that we had lost.
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Summary:
In all cases, in all countries, give maximum effort to resisting the loss of your valuable assets to bodies whose motives are sinister. Count the United Nations high amongst them.
Geoff S