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Mass Audubon’s Oak Knoll Wildlife Sanctuary has been certified as an official “Service Enterprise” for its growing number of volunteers who encourage people throughout Greater Attleboro to connect with nature. The Service Enterprise program is administered by Points of Light, the world’s largest organization dedicated to volunteer service and founded by President George H. W. Bush.

Mass Audubon has succeeded the Museum of Science in overseeing the Firefly Watch Citizen Science Project, which encourages volunteers to look for fireflies in their backyards or nearby fields and provide data in support of these amazing creatures and their habitats.

For the fifth consecutive year, Mass Audubon’s demonstrated financial health and commitment to accountability and transparency have earned it a 4-Star rating from Charity Navigator, the nation’s largest and most consulted evaluator of charities. Charity Navigator has placed Mass Audubon within the top 10 percent of the thousands of charities the organization assesses, outperforming not only most environmental nonprofits but most American charities as a whole.

Mass Audubon’s Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary is offering a Field Naturalist Certificate Program designed to prepare students for work in nature-based education, citizen science, habitat management, and other environmental fields. The 11-week course taught at a college level, which runs from August 29 through November 17, is geared to individuals seeking to increase their understanding of the natural world in a professional setting.

Do you enjoy taking photos of woodland paths and shining shorelines, songbirds and bunnies in the backyard, family members and friends reveling in nature? Then you’ll be excited to know that Mass Audubon’s annual statewide photo contest, Picture This: Your Great Outdoors, is now under way and continuing through Sunday, September 30.