conservation

Governor Maura Healey made her announcement Thursday at the Frances A. Crane Wildlife Management Area in East Falmouth.

Eighty-six percent of the land on Cape Cod is either developed or preserved. The Cape We Shape is a new effort to conserve much of the rest.

The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is once again open to commercial fishing. Whether that’s a good or a bad thing depends on who you ask.

Wild oyster reefs are functionally extinct in Massachusetts. But efforts are underway to restore the coastal ecosystems, starting with Mashpee’s Hamblin Pond.

StationKeeper sends messages directly from shore to vessels. Equipment installed at participating lighthouses makes it possible to warn mariners to slow down when they're traveling through right whale habitat.

The Coonamessett River Restoration project has been in the works since 2009. Now, it's finally finished.

The plan aims to double the pace of conservation, protecting 30 percent of the state’s land and water by 2030 and 40 percent by 2050.

The annual conference of the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions is one of the largest environmental conferences of its kind in New England.

A foundation on the island has been focused on land acquisition for 60 years. Now that it owns some 9,000 acres of land — about a third of the island — it wants to add more restoration to its agenda.

The bait fishery and biomedical industries are likely to be most impacted by harvest reduction measures, but conservationists say the efforts don’t go far enough to protect the "prehistoric" bottom-dwellers.