Party for the Planet

Zoo Miami’s Earth Day celebration – Party for the Planet – will feature fun “green” activities and entertainment for the entire family as well as animal enrichment with recycled items and/or natural materials like newspapers, cardboard tubes, bamboo, old tires, fire hoses, and more.

The Tropical Flowering Tree Society will be hosting its annual plant show and sale.  There will also be fun “green” activities and entertainment for the entire family as well as animal enrichment with recycled items and/or natural materials like newspapers, cardboard tubes, bamboo, old tires, fire hoses, and more.  

During Party for the Planet, guests can come in free of charge if they turn in a cellphone as part of the ECO-CELL phone recycling program. Not only will each person donating a cellphone enter the zoo for free on these two days, but they will also help save gorillas! Cell phones include coltan, a mineral extracted in the deep forests of Congo in central Africa, home to the world's endangered lowland gorillas. Fueled by the worldwide cell phone boom, Congo's out-of-control coltan mining business has in recent years led to a dramatic reduction of animal habitat and the rampant slaughter of great apes for the illegal bush-meat trade. By turning in your cell phone, we can hopefully reduce the need for additional coltan … and help protect the gorillas.  

The party is Saturday and Sunday, April 26 and 27 from 10 am to 4 pm.

Free with zoo admission. Admission: Adult (13+) $15.95; Child (3-12) $11.95; Children 2 and under free. 

Zoo Miami
12400 S.W. 152nd Street, Miami
305-251-0400
www.ZooMiami.org