Waste Management Earth Day

Celebrate Mother Earth and learn what you can do to protect the planet at Waste Management Earth Day at the Houston Zoo!

Activities this year include the popular Recycling Relay Race, an environmental maze, and our re-usable giant coloring mural! Our Meet the Keeper Talks – sponsored by Target – will feature conservation messages and recycled enrichment for our animals.  There will also be plenty of educational – and fun! – booths highlighting what the Zoo is doing, as well as what other Houston-area non-profit organizations are doing, to help save our planet.

Plus - on this weekend, kids can start their very own Nature Journal!  Not sure what a Nature Journal is?  It’s a way for kids to get in touch with nature by filling the journal with photos, stories, or artwork to describe what they see in their own backyard.  Visit our Earth Day craft booth to get your journal and decorate the cover.  Once you get home, explore the natural world around you and begin filling the pages! (Journals available while supplies last).

Be sure to visit our Naturally Wild Swap Shop during Earth Day weekend as well.  The Swap Shop is a place to bring items you have found in nature and trade them for natural items in our collection.  During Earth Day weekend only, guests will receive double points for any items brought to our Swap Shop!  This is your chance to collect even more points to put toward that bobcat skull you’ve been eyeing!  (And make sure to stop by the Swap Shop with your newly-created Nature Journal– you’ll get points for that too!)

All Earth Day activities are included with your paid Zoo admission.  Waste Management Earth Day at the Houston Zoo is FREE for Zoo Members.