The Chicago Zoological Society’s Communities and Nature Program Helping Pollinators, Helping People We depend on pollinators. Honeybees and other pollinators are responsible for a third of our diet. That’s one of every three bites of our food! But pollinator populations are dropping due to habitat loss (the use of glyphosate-based herbicides is the suspected cause)… Continue reading.
“Buttercups” for Butterflies If you visit the Wilds prairies on a hot summer day in August, you’ll find yourself surrounded by tall grasses that can tower over young children, buzzing bees, brightly colored butterflies, and yellow nodding sunflowers. This flourishing landscape did not happen on accident – it was carefully constructed by choosing native… Continue reading.
“I think the biggest role that we play as zoo designers is in creating the connective threads that link people to animals and their conservation stories. And we do that through really visual, relatable storytelling and by creating powerful emotional experiences that really remind people that they can have a hand in conservation.… Continue reading.
Our 2016 Mardi Gras show-stealer, Elphie, returned to the public scene this weekend at Earth Day to continue to gather support to ban the sale of illegal ivory. More than 62,000 people attended St. Louis Earth Day 2016, taking countless selfies with Elphie, making our big purple elephant a big star on Instagram and Twitter… Continue reading.
After Elphie’s grand appearance in the 2016 St. Louis Mardi Gras Parade, we made incredible headway in our PGAVIA Conservation Awareness Campaign towards banning the illegal ivory trade in our home state. As a direct result of our efforts, MO Representative Jeanne Kirkton (D) introduced legislation into the Missouri House of Representatives that will… Continue reading.
Third year students at The University of Kansas School of Architecture, Design, and Planning are currently in the early phases of a semester-long design challenge, the likes of which they’ve never seen before. Arch Out Loud’s “NYC Aquarium & Public Waterfront” proposes “the implementation of a public aquarium and park to provide communal space… Continue reading.