News & Events

You may see some new faces on your next visit to a Mass Audubon South East sanctuary! We're thrilled to welcome these new members to our amazing team of staff.

In December, the Westport High School Environmental Club volunteered at Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary to help collect native seed from important pollinator plants. The seed collected was from two native goldenrod species that are important nectar sources for monarch butterflies.

Over the past few months, educators from the South East region have been working within the Fall River community to provide adaptive programming for individuals with a variety of needs.

Our SE-based Coastal Waterbird Team monitored the efforts of 73 pairs of Piping Plovers at 17 beaches on the South Coast and South Shore.

Bring a brown bag lunch and engage in conversation and build community with Allens Pond supporters and Mass Audubon staff at the Stone Barn!

Throughout the month of September, we held 8 Monarch Tagging Events with the public and school groups. The Monarchs that we tagged are on their fall migration to Mexico, where other scientists will report the tags they recover during the monarch’s overwintering period. 

Over the past couple months, our Coastal Waterbird Program crew has worked extremely hard to keep the piping plovers of Westport Town Beach safe. 

This year marked the fourth year of Mass Audubon’s partnership with the University of Illinois at Springfield and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to help restore an osprey breeding population in Illinois. 

Mass Audubon educators have been spending time exploring the amazing wildlife and wild places of New Bedford with the Youth Opportunities Unlimited (Y.O.U.) campers as part of the Explore Your Environment Summer Program.

Visitors to Mass Audubon’s Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary in South Dartmouth and Westport may be curious if they spot groups of individuals digging on the sanctuary’s salt marsh. 

Allens Pond and Great Neck have been awarded $150,000 through an EPA program to restore saltmarsh habitats and make them more resilient to the impacts of climate change.