Regional News

By collaborating with local hunger relief organizations, we're getting our farm-grown, delicious produce to local families in need. We're 98% of the way to our $50,000 goal—help us get there by donating today!

This summer's Wild, Wild Auction was a wild, wild success! For the second year, this online event raised critical funds for Mass Audubon's work on Cape Cod. The bidding was strong and participation was wide-ranging.

Lillie Peterson-Wirtanen has joined Mass Audubon Cape Cod’s development team, succeeding Sheila Hoogeboom, who retired this month. Development Director Wendy O’Keefe says Lillie will work closely with the region's Leadership Friends and grants programs.

We're seeking volunteer water quality monitors to help collect data at multiple sites across the headwaters region of the Blackstone River watershed. Indoor and outdoor opportunities are available.

Thanks one local foundation's generosity, our creative collaboration with Gardner Head Start is expanding the Nature & Social-Emotional Learning program to new locations for the 2021-2022 school year!

The Youth Environmental Stewardship program is a paid summer internship that enables island youth to gain hands-on conservation and management experience at our sanctuaries. We have the chance to fund three students—but we need your help to make it happen! 

For four months of the year, one of our volunteers birds at the sanctuary daily in a practice called patch birding. This idea resonates with me—going deeply into a place, knowing it, appreciating it, and caring for it.

"My protection of the environment left the theoretical," says Sarah Swenson, talking about her YES internship this summer. "I realized that an essential part of my relationship with nature is a hands-on connection to the natural world."

Originally constructed in 1960 as one of Trailside's very first exhibits, it's time to improve the otter pool to meet modern standards while enhancing the educational experience.

By collaborating with local hunger relief organizations, we're getting our farm-grown, delicious produce to local families in need. We're 98% of the way to our $50,000 goal—help us get there by donating today!

Recently, a casual tally along the shore of Stony Brook Pond found more than 90 trees and shrubs bearing dramatic evidence of beaver activity within the last several months. Of course, it helps to know why the beavers are wreaking all this havoc in the first place.

Thanks to the generosity and vision of a longtime local family, MABA has grown by nearly three acres! The new addition features a lovely series of rapids on Pequit Brook, which parallels the sanctuary's Main Loop Trail.

The next time you're looking to get outdoors, stop by Broadmoor to check out the new trail improvements and learn all about what's on the horizon for our innovating organization. 

By collaborating with local hunger relief organizations, we're getting our farm-grown, delicious produce to local families in need. We're 98% of the way to our $50,000 goal—help us get there by donating today!

On display September 5–29

Habitat is excited to host an exhibition of original paintings by Gillian Orlinsky this September.

Ipswich River has joined the Motus Wildlife Tracking System! By participating in this exciting collaborative research network, scientists and educators across New England will be able to better understand the ecology and conservation of migratory birds.

Take the first step toward becoming a Joppa Flats education volunteer! Sign up for one or more in-the-field training programs, held weekly on Thursday mornings through October 7.

Thanks to a generous grant, Allens Pond is hosting a free "Nature Discovery & STEAM" program series through autumn! Next programs start in October.

If you've visited Daniel Webster this fall, you've probably noticed there's a lot of dirt and very little grass. Just wait—spring 2021 will bring lush, renewed meadows full of nesting birds and native pollinators!

Thanks to a generous grant, Allens Pond is hosting a free "Nature Discovery & STEAM" program series through autumn! Next programs start in October.

Each year, coastal waterbirds such as Piping Plovers, Least Terns, and American Oystercatchers return to their summer homes on the Massachusetts shoreline. And each year, our Coastal Waterbird Program (CWP) team works to protect the habitats that are crucial to the continued recovery of these threatened birds.

Our teen homeschool participants have been caring for rare Blanding's Turtle hatchlings since September 2020 as part of the USFWS Turtle Repatriation Project. 

Throughout April and May, some 50 dedicated volunteers made their way to Tidmarsh every week—some multiple times a week—to count migrating river herring as part of a statewide effort to track their population. 

Anne Lombard is a retired biology teacher and one of Arcadia's long-term volunteers. Now she wants others to know about how they can support the causes they believe in through a little-known planned giving option—Charitable Remainder Trusts (CRT).

If you've enjoyed a Mass Audubon naturalist-led hike, school field trip, library program, or summer camp in the Berkshires and Connecticut River Valley area this year, then you've benefited from the work of Dale Abrams.