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April
2010
Party for the Planet:
A Month-Long Celebration of the Earth
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We are so excited about our planet and doing
things to help the environment that we’re celebrating Earth Day – all
month long! Click here
to see a calendar of fun things you can do at home and at the Zoo to get
in touch with the earth during the month of April.
Each weekday visitors can enjoy the many
keeper
presentations and animal encounters that we offer and every weekend
will be filled with scavenger hunts and special activities like:
Saturday, April 3
Special Activities
Visit with folks from the Louisville Nature
Center to learn about all their camps, classes and programs. They will
also be offering their popular rain barrels for sale for $60 – that’s a
$10 dollar discount on the regular price. (1 – 4 p.m.)
Sunday, April 4
Eggstravaganza
11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Visit the Zoo to celebrate Easter with some of
our EGGstraordinary egg-laying animals. Be sure to pick up your egg
scavenger hunt as you enter the Zoo. The Easter Bunny will be here to
meet and greet visitors in Zoo Vision (12-4 p.m.) Be sure to bring
your cameras to take some great family photos.
 Saturday, April 10
Special Activities
The Louisville Science Center will host climate
change activities on the environmental implications for the Ohio River
Valley. These activities will explore the growing evidence of global
warming in our watershed. (11 a.m. – 4 p.m.)
ZooPoopyDoo Compost and Mulch Sale (8 a.m. – 12
p.m. in the bus parking lot)
Sunday, April 11
Bat Awareness Day:
Featuring the Louisville Zoo’s fruit and vampire bats and Stellaluna
11 a.m. – 4 p.m
Come learn more about the fascinating world of
bats! Keeper talks and animal enrichment activities will help dispel
myths and misconceptions surrounding these amazing creatures. Guests
will also have the chance to meet and greet Stellaluna (12 – 4 p.m.)
Saturday, April 17
Special Activities
Bluegrass Ecycle will be on hand accepting
electronic waste products for recycling. (11 a.m. – 4 p.m. in the bus
parking lot.) Onsite hard-drive destruction will be available.
ZooPoopyDoo Compost and Mulch Sale (8 a.m. – 12
p.m. in the bus parking lot)
 Sunday, April 18
Primate Awareness Day:
Featuring the Louisville Zoo’s amazing primates AND Curious George
11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Come on out and ask our animal experts everything
you’ve always wanted to know about gorillas, orangutans, simangs, woolly
monkeys and more. Enjoy a day full of zookeeper presentations and animal
enrichment activities. Guests will also have a chance to meet and greet
Curious George (12 - 4 p.m.)
Saturday, April 24
Special Activities
DDC of Kentucky paper
shredding will be at the Zoo shredding papers, folders, ID & credit
cards. (11 a.m. – 4 p.m. in the bus parking lot.) Please remove papers
from binders and remove all carbon paper before bringing them to the
Zoo. All of the shredded paper will be recycled to help reduce the
amount of raw materials needed to make new products as well as keeping
shredding out of landfills.
Mulch Sale (8 a.m. – 12
p.m. in the bus parking lot).
Zoo Poopy Doo compost is completely sold out. Mulch is still
available.
Sunday, April 25
Earth Day Festival
Eco-partner displays 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Special discount
admission is just $2 per person all day, courtesy of E.ON U.S.
  It’s a Party for the Planet to celebrate Earth
Day! You can learn about the Zoo’s conservation efforts and visit
environmental displays by some of our eco- partners at four stations set
up throughout the Zoo.
The first 1,000 guests to bring in an old
cellphone to donate to the Zoo’s cell phone recycling program will
receive a FREE “I Helped Save Gorillas” cloth tote bag from E.ON U.S.
and Eco-Cell, the Zoo’s partner in cell phone recycling.
Then be sure to pick up your free copy of the
Toyota Backyard Action Hero Magazine. Come join the fun and learn what
you can do to help save our planet!
Want to do more the help the
earth?
Click here to
see a list of 101 things that YOU can do to help save animals and their
habitats.
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