Posts from — December 2011
Oh Christmas Tree!
The holidays have come and gone so quickly! New Year’s Eve is just around the corner, and before we know it, all of our holiday cheer will be packed away once again. If you have a real Christmas tree this year, consider recycling it so it can become mulch, wood chips or compost and help future Christmas trees grow! According to the National Christmas Tree Association, there are approximately 25-30 million real Christmas trees sold in the U.S. every year. Imagine if all of those trees are recycled! Close to 350 million Christmas trees currently grow on tree farms in the U.S. alone and for every Christmas tree harvested, 1 to 3 seedlings are planted the following spring. There are more than 4,000 local Christmas tree recycling programs throughout the United States, including the following throughout southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky. Make sure your tree is free of any lights, ornaments, other decorations, nails and wire before dropping them off or setting them at the curb (depending on your location).
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December 27, 2011 No Comments
Greening Your Gifts!
Give the gift of green this holiday season with gifts that help the planet. The Cincinnati Zoo’s Gift Shop offers a number of eco-friendly gifts, along with other “ZOO-nique” gift ideas that benefit the Zoo. For example, there are bright, beautiful bags and scarves made from recycled silk fibers. Those same bags are also made from recycled hemp fibers. An example of eco-friendly jewelry is Nuna Collections Tagua Nut Jewelry. [Read more →]
December 22, 2011 No Comments
Anticipating Cat Canyon
Twigs snap. Leaves rustle. You get a prickly feeling on the back of your neck as you wonder whether someone, or something, is watching you, stalking you, hunting you. It’s an eat-or-be-eaten world and, in the Cincinnati Zoo’s new Cat Canyon exhibit opening next summer, you are the prey.
A fishing cat crouches in its Night Hunters exhibit. (Photo: Brian Jorg)
Cat Canyon will encompass and link up the new Night Hunters experience (opened in May 2011) with the former Tiger Canyon area and include new exhibits for cougars, tigers, and snow leopards. (The cougar exhibit actually opened already.) Cat Canyon provides an exciting, sensory adventure into the world of our great predators, the wild cats, while strengthening the Zoo’s commitment to the conservation of threatened species through education and scientific research in the wild and at the Zoo. [Read more →]
December 1, 2011 No Comments
