Bay Nature magazine

08/23/2025

Our back-to-school crowdfunder ends soon! 🎒 We saw the discovery of Bay Nature in action when reading science worksheets sent by a grateful teacher. 🏫 The middle school student who did this drawing wrote, “The red-legged frog could be affected greatly if people cut down many trees because its big pupils are sensitive to light.” 🐸 Give to help Bay Area students explore nature in the classroom! 📚 Act now—our crowdfunder ends 8/24! 🔗 https://ow.ly/UYIq50WKvIv

📷 Barbara Butkus, drawing by Alameda middle schooler, frog photo by Matthew Bettelheim

08/20/2025

Help Bay Area students discover nature! 🦀 🐬 🐙 Thanks to our donors, Bay Nature helped middle and high school students engage with nature in their classrooms and libraries as a result of our ‘Bay Nature in the Schools’ program during the 2024-25 school year. This week, our goal is to give Bay Nature magazine subscriptions to even more schools! 🔶 Will you help us foster outdoor awe in Bay Area students with a gift today?
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📷 Barbara Butkus, drawing by Alameda middle schooler, needlepoint by Sadie Rose du Vigneaud

08/16/2025

Help us give Bay Nature magazine to local schools during the 2025-26 school year! 📚 This drawing was made by a local student whose classroom received a class set of Bay Nature last year—thanks to our donors. Join them and bring nature education to life for Bay Area students like this with a gift. 🌼🌳🦌 Give to our crowdfunder today! 🔗https://baynature.app.neoncrm.com/campaigns/2783

📷 Barbara Butkus, drawing by Alameda middle schooler, illustration by Jane Kim Ink Dwell

06/30/2025

Bay Nature is a small nonprofit publisher. 📚 We thrive as an organization supported by members like you in a community of learning and engagement. If you’re seeking a deeper connection—with nature, science, and others like you—you’ve found it! 🔶 Invest in our nonprofit by making a donation today! 🔗 https://ow.ly/i3ZY50WfPYT

📷 Tanvi Dutta Gupta

06/27/2025

Bay Nature provides you with award-winning nature journalism and events that bring our stories to life. 🛥️ We plan to keep taking deep journalistic dives through the current political uncertainty so you stay informed. 🔶 Dive in with us and give today! 🔗 https://ow.ly/3qNr50WfPXf

📷 Tanvi Dutta Gupta

06/25/2025

These are extraordinary times for conservation in the Bay Area. 🐋 As the voice of our local environmental community, Bay Nature is keeping you informed. We know many readers—like you—share our belief in the power of independent media. 🔶 Meet the moment with us by giving today 🔗 https://ow.ly/xXvC50WfPtS

📷Thierry Eidenweil (Getty Images via Canva)

***mwhale

05/24/2025

Last day to support our Journalism Fellowship Program! 🔶 Bay Nature is one of the few environmental publications in the US offering paid, full-time journalism fellowships. 🍋 Help us reach our $20K goal! 🔗 https://ow.ly/LQWA50VY7O7

📷 Andrew Cheng

05/20/2025

Bay Nature’s journalism fellow Tanvi got to set sea on Monterey Bay with MBARI to listen to s***m whales for her feature story. 🐋 You can help fund field research trips for our emerging journalists by giving to our fellowship crowdfunder today! 🛥️
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📷 Jenny Stock of NOAA's Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Point Blue Conservation Science

05/19/2025

Looking for some great summer reads? We’ve pulled together a few of our favorites, from a deep dive into the flamboyant mating rituals of grebes to a guidebook on drawing birds. Looking for fun in the sun? Check out a new park in San Francisco and a guide to photographing wildlife that is sure to inspire you to start exploring!

This guide contains paid listings from our valued partners, whose support helps us to continue producing quality environmental journalism.

Prefer paper? Download a handy printable version of this guide.
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05/17/2025

Help Bay Nature train an environmental journalist and a documentary photographer! Today, we’re launching a crowdfunder to buoy our Journalism Fellowship Program and welcome new fellows in August. Keep nature journalism alive by giving now! 🔗 https://ow.ly/2TSl50VTtLu

📷 Barbara Butkus

05/15/2025

“It’s not as simple as ‘remove the cattle and everything will be fine.’ ”
Lisa M. Krieger reports on the grand vision for Point Reyes National Seashore. It's far from guaranteed.

When ranchers leave the land, what version of nature takes over? The park and The Nature Conservancy have ambitious restoration plans.

05/01/2025

One year ago, a team of earnest conservationists released a few dozen silvery blue butterflies at the Presidio, hoping they would settle down and fill the ecological niche once held there by the Xerces blue butterfly, before the U.S. military poured gravel over Xerces’ last known habitat in the Presidio military base in the 1940s. The team placed butterflies transported from similar climates further south near deerweed, the insects’ host plant, and waited. Just re-populate the landscape once occupied by the first insect in North America known to have become extinct because of human behavior, little butterflies. No pressure.

The great H.R. Smith gives us a hopeful update on this butterfly introduction program a year after the first releases.
Main photo: Gayle Smith of the California Academy of Sciences.

At a recent release, volunteers help a new batch of silvery blues adjust to city life.