Press Room

Mass Audubon is offering military veterans and their families free admission to its statewide network of nearly 60 wildlife sanctuaries on Veterans Day, Sunday, November 11. Sanctuaries that are open Monday, November 12, when the holiday is formally observed, will also offer free admission to vets and families.

Cape Cod’s cold-stun season for endangered or threatened sea turtles has started with the rescue of four Kemp’s ridleys October 22,  at beaches in Eastham and Brewster. The marine reptiles were recovered by staff members of Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.

Mass Audubon’s annual statewide photo contest, Picture This: Your Great Outdoors, which wraps up Sunday, September 30. Contest participants may compete in one of two age categories, 18 and Older and Under 18. Subject areas include: People in Nature, Birds, Mammals, Other Animals, Landscapes, and Plants and Fungi.

Mass Audubon’s Shaping the Future of Your Community program has received a grant from the Foundation for MetroWest to advance conservation and climate-smart development in local communities. This grant will highlight successes in the City of Framingham, which updated its local regulations to better promote cost-effective, nature-based solutions to climate change.

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.