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Waste Management Earth Day

 

April 18 and 19
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

It’s a Party for the Planet and you’re invited!

Join the Houston Zoo and Waste Management as we highlight Mother Earth.  Learn how you can help protect the planet by recycling and conserving in your everyday life.  Event activities include our Recycling Relay Race, Can You Run as Fast as a Cheetah?, Give Mother Earth a Hand, and Meet the Keeper Talks focused on what the Houston Zoo does to help our planet.  
 

Waste Management Earth Day Activities

     
Earth Day DJ 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Reflection Pool
Recycle Ben 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Various locations
Recycling Juggler 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. Werler Stage
Zooper Challenge 12 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. Children’s Zoo Butterfly Stage
Story Safari 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Children’s Zoo Butterfly Stage
Sea Lion Show 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. McGovern Marine Mammal Marina
 
 
 
 
Meet the Keeper Talks and Animal Enrichment Presentations
     
10 a.m. Bats Natural Encounters Building
  Cuban Crocodile
(Sat. Only)
Reptile House
  Lace Monitor (Sun. Only) Reptile House
10:30 a.m. Fruit Bat Feeding McGovern Children’s Zoo Bat Cave
11 a.m.

Alligator Snapping Turtle (Sat. Only)

Reptile House
 

Panamanian Golden Frog (Sun. Only)

Reptile House
  Piranha (Sun. Only) Natural Encounters Building
  Okapi (Sat. Only) Okapi Exhibit
  Tiger Tiger Exhibit
     
11:15 a.m.

Cinereous Vulture (Sat. Only)

Vulture Exhibit
11:30 a.m. African Lion Lion Exhibit
  Eland and Warthog East Hoof Run Exhibits
  Pelicans (Sun. Only) Duck Lake
12 p.m. Tree of Life Presentation Natural Encounters Building
1 p.m. Bongo (Sat. Only) Bongo Antelope Exhibit
  Armadillo McGovern Children’s Zoo
1:30 p.m Aquarium Presentation Kipp Aquarium
  Elephants McNair Asian Elephant Habitat
  Sifaka Wortham World of Primates
  Animal Presentation McGovern Children’s Zoo
2 p.m. Babirusa Wortham World of Primates
2:30 p.m. Orangutans Wortham World of Primates
  Clouded Leopard Small Cats Exhibit
3 p.m. Bongo Bongo Antelope Exhibit
  Spectacled Bears Spectacled Bear Exhibit
  Pelicans McGovern Children’s Zoo
3:15 p.m. Flamingo Flamingo Pool
  Laughing Kookaburra (Sat. Only) Birds of the World
3:30 p.m. Tropical Bird House Rainforest Aviary
  Snakes Reptile House
4 p.m. Meerkats Natural Encounters Building