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A full day of workshops, speakers, wildlife updates, vendors, and more. Lunch included! Co-sponsored by Mass Audubon and Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences.

In 2009, the Department of Interior produced The State of the Birds, a comprehensive synthesis describing the conservation status, threats, and recovery objectives for every major North American bird group. Since birds have long been litmus for environmental change, what’s happening to birds could portend what the future holds for mankind. In this not-to-be-missed event, two leading environmental organizations examine how science, technology, and birds could offer the key to some of the greatest challenges facing our planet in the future.  For more information about the Birders Meeting and to register, click here.

Boston Globe Feature: What does it take to save a species? Sometimes high-voltage power lines.

Clean, abundant, safe and sustainable sources of energy are vital to our planet’s future. In a front-page story in the November 22 Sunday Boston Globe “Ideas” section, Dr. Katharine Parsons, senior scientist and Director of Wildlife and Energy Solutions at Manomet, takes the lead in exploring with the Globe how energy transmission corridors fit into the overall picture of sustainability.

To read this article—Green Lines—click here.

Patrick-Murray Administration Launches Biomass Sustainability Study

White paper will inform Department of Energy Resources regulations for qualifying biomass facilities under the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard

BOSTON – The Department of Energy Resources (DOER) today announced its selection of the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences of Plymouth to lead a comprehensive study of issues related to biomass sustainability and carbon policy. Launched at the direction of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles, the six-month study will result in a “white paper” that brings the best science to bear as DOER prepares new regulations to establish sustainability criteria biomass facilities must meet under the Massachusetts Renewable Portfolio Standard.   Read more…

A Human-Centric Approach to Conservation Science

When future historians chronicle the turning point in the battle to save the planet, their story may well lead down a rutted dirt road to a wooded bluff in Manomet.

There, on the former summer estate known as Widewater, volunteers have been netting and banding migratory birds for more than four decades.

The Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences has come a long way from its early days as a bird observatory. That work continues on a daily basis, providing decades of statistical evidence about how the environment changes. Click here to read this story in The Old Colony Memorial.