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By Robert Barboza Editor OUTSTANDING CONSERVATIONIST: William W. Pinney, Jr., recipient of this year’s George G. Haydock Award for outstanding contributions to protecting the coastal environment, accepts his award from Lloyd Center president Mary Ellen Hawes Lees at the Center’s annual meeting Thursday night. Lees was re-elected president, joining Robert…

NEW BEDFORD — The “Driving Green” workshop on Saturday is third in the trio of “Shrink Your Footprint” workshops at the Buttonwood Park Zoo. The series is sponsored by seven local non-profits: Buttonwood Park Zoo, The Coalition for Buzzards Bay, Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust, Lloyd Center for the Environment, Massachusetts…

Long before the sun had risen on the cold, calm morning of February 17, a crew of die-hard birders headed for the quiet Dartmouth woods to observe owl behavior. Led by Research Associate Jamie Bogart, the group set out to hear owls during their courtship period at the hour when…

On Sunday February 3, 2008, Lloyd Center staff, scientists and volunteer surveyors completed the second count for this season’s annual winter waterfowl survey, from the Sakonnet River in Rhode Island to Apponagansett Bay in Dartmouth. This year’s total of 7,073 birds in our estuaries and coastal ponds surpasses the December…

Spend warm, sunny days on the beach of your choice, helping protect the endangered piping plover, a shorebird that nests each year on the State beaches of Horseneck, Gooseberry, Demarest Lloyd, and West Island. These beaches experience high levels of human visitation and recreation, such that disturbance to adult birds…

By Daniel H. King Staff Writer Chronicle BUZZARDS BAY — On a beautiful winter day, dozens of curious area residents headed out into Buzzards Bay to see some of the South Coast’s least-seen inhabitants, seals. The Lloyd Center for the Environment hosted their annual Seal Watch and Cuttyhunk Island Tour…

DARTMOUTH – Once a month, Lloyd Center Educators arrive in Quinn Elementary School’s third-grade classrooms armed with props, worksheets, activities and other materials. Why? To teach the children about birds. Through birds, students are exploring basic concepts of life science such as food chains, predator/prey relationships, adaptations, migration and extinction,…

The Lloyd Center for the Environment just received notification from Monarch Watch that one of the Monarch butterflies tagged by students from Westport Elementary School was recovered in the El Rosario reserve in Mexico. The butterfly had traveled 2,290 from Westport to the over-wintering grounds in the mountains of central…

JACK IDDON/The Standard-Times DARTMOUTH – While working for an environmental group might seem light years away from a career in the city, the transition has been a natural one for D’Arcy MacMahon, executive director of the Lloyd Center for the Environment. Mr. MacMahon has spent the past 30 years working…

The Standard-Times October 12, 2004 By Jonathan Darling DARTMOUTH- Fifth-grade students at Cushman Elementary School took the lessons they learned in the classroom out to the environment at the Lloyd Center in Dartmouth last week. “It’s to get kids excited about the environment,” said Sarah Van Vleck, director of institutional…

The Chronicle Sept 1, 2004 By Christine Styan DARTMOUTH – Fledgling piping plovers blending into the pebbles on Horseneck Beach are part of a success story. Working with the federally endangered species, Lloyd Center Jamie Bogart has spent his summer making sure beachgoers stay away from the baby plovers before…