Press Room

Mass Audubon is hosting a Tidmarsh Turns 5! Weekend Celebration Friday June 2 and Saturday June 3 to mark the fifth anniversary of the wildlife sanctuary in Plymouth. 

Mass Audubon’s Boston Nature Center will kick off Pride Month with an LGBTQ+-centered Pride Festival on Saturday, June 3. The 12:00–5:00 pm gathering at the popular Mattapan wildlife sanctuary and community resource is one of numerous Pride at Mass Audubon events scheduled throughout the month of June at sanctuaries from the Cape and Islands to the Connecticut River Valley.

Mass Audubon has named Erin Kelly its new Regional Director, Boston, responsible for the statewide conservation organization’s Boston Nature Center & Wildlife Sanctuary in Mattapan. Kelly had been serving as the Acting Director of the Boston region for the past seven months following the retirement of longtime Director Julie Brandlen last year.

Mass Audubon has been tapped by Mayor Michelle Wu to lead a new program that will plant and maintain trees on private land to enhance the livability of Boston by expanding its tree canopy and directly improving public health.

A collaboration between Mass Audubon and the state Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) has protected a 69-acre parcel of land in Princeton that could have been subdivided for residential development.