ZSL London Zoo Experience Competition
Rainforest Life, launching at the Zoo in March, brings visitors the wonder of Earth’s very own rainforest – in amazing better-than-
Sloths, tamarins, hairy armadillos, sun bitterns and tree anteaters will be among forest species to roam around London’s only living rainforest, in harmony with exotic living trumpet trees and yellow rattle shaker plants.
Visitors to the Rainforest Life experience – which opens in March – will be immersed in the sights, smells and sounds of the rainforest as soon as they arrive, giving them an encounter far more breathtaking than the amazing 3D scenes in Avatar.
Zoological Director David Field said: “If people feel inspired by the world of Pandora depicted in Avatar that’s great, but they should not forget that the ecosystems we have on earth are no less breathtaking.
“Rainforest Life will give people a real taste of the rainforest, far superior to 3D film, and we hope to inspire them to protect the forests we have left on Earth. They are amazing, but they are disappearing fast.”
Avatar fans left feeling “blue” when the credits rolled can enter their details at www.zsl.org/
The Rainforest Life experience will launch, alongside the Night Life experience in the Clore Rainforest Lookout exhibit at ZSL London Zoo.
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Editors notes:
• Entrants should enter their details before 5pm on Friday, Feb 26th 2010. Winners will be notified by March 5th 2010.
• See animals in a different light at Rainforest Life, ZSL London Zoo’s exciting new experience in Clore Rainforest Lookout, launching March 2010. Enter London’s only living rainforest where you’ll come face to face with a variety of amazing rainforest species including monkeys, sloth, armadillo and tamandua. Step out of the light and into the amazing Night Life experience, where you’ll discover the bats, rats and nocturnal wonders that call the dark their home.
• The Clore Duffield Foundation is a grant-making organisation which concentrates its support on education, the arts, museum and gallery education, cultural leadership training, health and social care and enhancing Jewish life, whilst placing a particular emphasis on supporting children, young people and society's more vulnerable individuals. The Foundation is chaired by Dame Vivien Duffield DBE.
• Zoological Society of London (ZSL) founded in 1826 is an international scientific, conservation and educational charity: our key role is the conservation of animals and their habitats. ZSL runs ZSL London Zoo and ZSL Whipsnade Zoo, carries out scientific research in the Institute of Zoology and is actively involved in field conservation in other countries worldwide. For further information please visit www.zsl.org
• 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity, and people all over the world are working to safeguard this irreplaceable natural wealth and reduce biodiversity loss. This is vital for current and future human wellbeing. We need to do more. Now is the time to act. ZSL is taking an active role in this campaign.
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