Regional News

Wellfleet Bay has been providing programs to Cape Cod schools for nearly 40 years. But recently, the sanctuary has expanded its reach into a new, key age group—preschool!

Over the past couple years, we've added some serious muscle to Wellfleet Bay's birding "bench strength" thanks to two accomplished birders that have joined our staff—Jim Sweeney and Joel Wagner. 

Melissa Lowe Cestaro—a 25-year veteran of Mass Audubon—has been chosen to succeed Sanctuary Director Bob Prescott, who is retiring this fall after nearly 40 years at the helm.

Wellfleet Bay has been chosen as a beneficiary of the 2019 Seaside Le Mans race! This extraordinary opportunity will help expand our conservation science education programs to underserved children, strengthen existing school programs, and provide new learning opportunities at the sanctuary.

After finding a dead bat that wasn't typically found on Nantucket, researchers began monitoring the island’s bat population. They discovered that this federally threatened bat species wasn't so rare on Nantucket after all. 

As part of a new partnership between Mass Audubon and UMass Boston, 12 high school students from Boston schools who are participating in the Urban Scholars Program visited the UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station to meet with local scientists and environmentalists. 

We're beyond thrilled to announce that Felix Neck opened Mass Audubon's fifth nature preschool on September 3!

Unlike Monarchs or Ospreys, summer visitors come to the Island for a myriad of reasons. But our camp counselors all come to Felix Neck for one reason—to educate campers about the magic of the natural world.

Summer 2019 was an incredible season for the monitoring of our local Osprey and horseshoe crab populations—both in the numbers of these animals recorded as well as in the turnout of dedicated and eager volunteers who led the charge. 

We recently spoke with three high school students from our Student Leadership Committee to learn a little more about the planning process for our first-ever Youth Climate Summit taking place on May 24.

Your house is incredibly biodiverse, with thousands of species of microbes, molds, spiders, and insects sharing your space. To put it simply, you are running a biodiversity boardinghouse. But there's good news—according to Never Home Alone by Rob Dunn, not all of this is bad news.