On Saturday, April 22, Mass Audubon staff and supporters joined thousands of others in Boston, Worcester, and Pittsfield to stand up for the central role of science in informing public discourse.

Sound science is key to so much of what Mass Audubon does on a daily basis, from educating kids in schools to research on changing habitats.

Here are just a few examples of what Mass Audubon is currently doing to continue our science-based conservation efforts:

• Applying data from the second Massachusetts Breeding Bird Atlas to direct statewide forest bird and grassland bird conservation programs.
• Incorporating habitat quality and climate resilience modeling into MAPPR, a land conservation decision-support tool.
• Monitoring and collecting data on Piping Plovers and terns on over 140 miles of Massachusetts beaches.
• Training citizen scientists in the Stellwagen Sanctuary Seabird Steward.
• Monitoring habitat response to our dam removal and grassland expansion projects at Canoe Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary in Pittsfield.
• With partners, experimenting with living shorelines at Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary on Martha’s Vineyard.
• Analyzing land use change in Massachusetts to power the next edition of Losing Ground.

Click on links above to learn more about these projects. And please support our work so we can continue to protect Massachusetts for people and wildlife!