Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc

In addition to the services provided by the network of sanctuaries and the education programming referred to above which are available to members and non-members alike, mass audubon members also enjoy a printed newsletter (explore) produced four times per year, a monthly e-newsletter (explorations), discounts on programs and at gift shops, and publications to increase public awareness of wildlife, nature, and environmental issues. in addition, the mass audubon website (www.massaudubon.org) offers a wide variety of information on mass audubon's sanctuaries, conservation efforts, land protection projects, advocacy issues, climate change work, and the natural world. mass audubon also operates a gift shop in lincoln which sells merchandise related to nature, wildlife observation and environmental education to both members and non-members as well as a number of smaller nature-themed gift shops at many of the sanctuaries.

Mass audubon utilizes and develops scientific knowledge to support its longstanding tradition as an organization which uses science as the underpinning for its education, land protection, advocacy and habitat stewardship activities. current research and/or ecological management work focuses on the protection, restoration, and stewardship of selected massachusetts habitats such as grasslands, coastal heathlands, retired cranberry bogs, and salt marshes. in addition, monitoring of key groups of organisms such as birds, amphibians, invertebrates and plants continues across the state in order to provide an important baseline to evaluate changing environmental conditions associated with climate change and land development. mass audubon has also developed and implements an invasive species management strategy to protect the integrity of its lands as well as to provide guidance for other landowners throughout the state.mass audubon lands play a critical role in the delivery of its mission, and its land protection efforts focus on conserving ecologically significant tracts of land adjacent to existing wildlife sanctuaries, thereby protecting and enhancing their biological integrity and viability as program sites. mass audubon also advances the protection of high priority focus areas beyond its existing wildlife sanctuaries through collaboration with state and local public agencies and local and regional land trusts. collectively, these protection priorities include a wide range of massachusetts habitats.

Key mass audubon advocacy accomplishments in fy 2025 include: 1. massachusetts governor maura healey signed a sweeping climate and energy bill into law for which mass audubon had lobbied. this act promotes a clean energy grid, advances equity, and protects ratepayers and will provide much-needed reform to the state's approach to siting and permitting clean energy infrastructure. this is a big step forward for clean energy in massachusetts.2. mass audubon launched the nature for massachusetts coalition, fighting for an increase in state investments for nature. the campaign kicked off with a state house launch event in support of the legislation, an act providing nature for all.3. mass audubon also participated in state energy siting reform processes, with the goal of shifting incentives to put more solar projects on buildings and developed areas, and fewer large-scale projects in forests and on farms. this included mass audubon's appointment to the state's commission on energy infrastructure siting and permitting.4. mass audubon's rescue raptors campaign to curb harmful rodent poisons continues to grow, with over 90 communities now organizing around the issue across the state. 36 towns and cities have reduced the use of these poisons (sgars) on municipal property, and 18 have filed (or will soon file) home rule petitions to request authority to restrict sgars on private property. in a virtual forum attended by over 300 people, mass audubon also brought together new england's leading poison-free pest control professionals