Newport Bay Conservancy Naturalist Training

Registration for the 2025-26 Naturalist Training is now open! Please find the registration link below. ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~ *Scholarships Available – see base of announcement for details Newport Bay Conservancy (NBC) is a non-profit environmental...

Fostering Interest in Nature

  Newport Bay Conservancy is excited to work in partnership with the City of Newport Beach and the Newport Dunes Resort to provide FiiN (Fostering Interest in Nature) for 5th grade students. This free, overnight nature camp includes 3 days and 2 nights at the...

Donor Spotlight: Subaru Love Promise

In its ongoing, multi-year collaboration with Newport Bay Conservancy, Subaru and its inspiring initiative, the Subaru Love Promise, brings people together for a worthy – and musical! – purpose at the Newport Beach Jazz Festival. Subaru’s partnerships with a wide...

Celebrate World Wetlands Day Saturday, February 4, 2023

Join us to celebrate World Wetlands Day 2023 with an online symposium followed by in-person wetland tours. In 1971, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands became the first global conservation agreement. Its founding principles specify seven values of wetlands, including...

Volunteer Lane Koluvek

LANE KOLUVEK (1941-2021) By Frances Cork.  February 2022 (With thanks to Annie Quinn and Linda Koluvek for their information) I first met Lane about 15 years ago on a habitat restoration session in Newport Valley, part of Matt Yurko’s Wednesday morning program. Lane...

Volunteer Dick Newell

Dick Newell by Judy Booth Dick Newell’s Celebration of Life may be viewed HERE Richard Scott “Dick” Newell touched our lives for 84 years with loyalty, kindness, wit and a great love of nature. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Dudley and Margaret Newell....