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Mary Landers

Mary Landers
Reporter, The Current
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Mary Landers covers Coastal Georgia’s environment for The Current, a topic she covered for nearly 24 years at the Savannah Morning News, where she began and ended her time there writing about health, including most recently focusing on the pandemic. She’s adept at telling the stories of everyone from jellyfish fishers to pipeline protesters. Mary is a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi, where she taught environmental science at Lake Malawi National Park. As a reporter in Georgia, she’s won numerous investigative reporting awards as well as the Larry Peterson Investigative Journalism Award.

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Baby Sea Turtles

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  • Environment

Habitat loss, climate change threaten coast's diverse reptile population

Georgia is home to 83 species of turtles, lizards, snakes and the alligator, and most live on the coast.

May 06, 2022
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By:
  • Mary Landers
Proposed Spaceport Camden

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  • Environment

Camden County courts private investors for spaceport

Camden County is forging ahead on plans for its spaceport despite last month’s referendum vote that overwhelmingly rejected the county’s purchase of the property for the dreamed-of facility.

April 13, 2022
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By:
  • Mary Landers
Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge

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  • Environment

McIntosh County rethinks roadside spraying

McIntosh County is pausing a plan to replace roadside mowing with an herbicide spraying program after residents questioned it.

April 07, 2022
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  • Mary Landers
Polling place in Camden County

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  • Politics

Georgia Supreme Court allows certification of Spaceport vote

The Georgia Supreme Court dealt another blow to Camden County’s spaceport plan when it denied the county's request to stop the certification of Tuesday’s referendum in which voters roundly rejected the spaceport.

March 11, 2022
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By:
  • Mary Landers
Voter precinct and sign

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  • Politics

Voters to Spaceport Camden: Abort launch

By a nearly 3-to-1 margin on Tuesday, Camden County voters told the county commission to pull out of its option contract to buy land for a planned spaceport.

March 09, 2022
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  • Mary Landers
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