Party for the Planet: April 20 and 21, 2013

Post Date:4/7/2013

Zoo Miami’s Earth Day celebration – Party for the Planet – will be held Saturday and Sunday April 20 and 21, from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. The Tropical Flowering Tree Society will be hosting its annual plant show and sale. There will also be fun “green” activities and entertainment for the entire family as well as animal enrichment with recycled items and/or natural materials like newspapers, cardboard tubes, bamboo, old tires, fire hoses, and more.

10:00 a.m.	Greater one-horned rhino	Box filled with browse
11:30 a.m.	Orangutans	Tractor tires
12:00 p.m.	Meerkats	Easter surprise
1:00 p.m.	Asian elephants	Treat boxes
1:30 p.m.	Asian small-clawed otters	Plastic bottles with colored water
1:45 p.m.	Chimpanzees	Tractor tires
2:00 p.m.	Harpy eagle	Papier maché Earth with diet inside
2:00 p.m.	Gorillas	Tractor tires
2:30 p.m.	Sun bears	Barrel with treats
3:00 p.m.	African elephants	Treat boxes

During Party for the Planet, guests can come in free of charge if they turn in a cellphone as part of our ECO-CELL phone recycling program. Not only will each person donating a cellphone enter the zoo for free on these two days, but they will also help save gorillas! Cell phones include coltan, a mineral extracted in the deep forests of Congo in central Africa, home to the world's endangered lowland gorillas. Fueled by the worldwide cell phone boom, Congo's out-of-control coltan mining business has in recent years led to a dramatic reduction of animal habitat and the rampant slaughter of great apes for the illegal bush-meat trade. By turning in your cell phone, we can hopefully reduce the need for additional coltan … and help protect the gorillas.