Party for the Planet
One Health. One Climate.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Free for all guests
Rain-or-shine event
We’re keeping the momentum going after Earth Day! Join us for Party for the Planet. It’ll be a day of fun — activities, music, a raffle and more — as well as provide opportunities to learn how we can help keep our planet and its climate healthy.
Meet the experts
Talk with One Health and climate solutions experts — including Zoo educators, next-generation One Health practitioners and scientists from the Saint Louis Zoo Institute for Conservation Medicine — who can answer questions and offer tips on how we can live more sustainably.
Topics our team will cover include:
- Benefits of Animals on Human Health
- Impacts of Climate Change
- Impacts of Forest Habitat Loss
- Impacts of Pathogens on Living Things
- Importance of Biodiversity
- Importance of Local Water Quality on Ocean Health
- Importance of Pollinators
Participate in activities (plus a raffle!)
Visit One Health activity stations across the Zoo and collect a stamp from each of the tables. If you collect all the stamps, you will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win prizes! The prizes include:
- A Reptile Rendezvous behind-the-scenes tour at the Zoo
- A bundle of Zoo event tickets: four tickets to Animals Aglow, four tickets to Boo at the Zoo and four tickets to Wild Lights
- Four Adventure Passes
Savor food and beverage specials
Treats available for purchase include planet-shaped cookies and a Dirt & Worms Frappuccino special at Starbucks.
Talk to local vendors who will be at the Zoo to share their organizations’ sustainable initiatives. Vendors include:
| Ameren | Forrest Keeling Nursery | Hamilton Native Outpost |
| Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District | Missouri Botanical Garden | Missouri Coalition for the Environment |
| Missouri S&T STEM Mobile | Mosquito Alert STL | OneSTL |
| Saint Louis Story Stitchers | St. Louis City SC | StraightUp Solar |
About One Health
One Health is the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines, working locally, nationally and globally, to attain optimal health for people, animals and our environment.
Relevant players in a One Health approach include professionals in:
- Human Health (Doctors, Nurses, Public Health Practitioners, Epidemiologists)
- Animal Health (Veterinarians, Paraprofessionals, Agricultural Workers)
- Environment-Related Fields (Ecologists, Wildlife Experts)
- Human Behavior-Related Fields (Sociologists, Anthropologists, Economists, Politicians)
The Zoo's position on climate change
Throughout its history, the Earth’s climate has varied, reflecting our environment’s complex interactions and dependences. Humans have been changing the planet ever since the dawn of agriculture 10,000 years ago. However, during the 20th century, the rate of climate change increased dramatically — the greatest in the last 150 years. This increase is due to the use of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas. The rampant burning of these fossil fuels has increased the amount of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere at a rate too fast for the Earth’s regular processes to handle.
Scientific consensus holds that climate change is interrupting natural cycles, causing habitat loss and prompting more extreme weather patterns. All of this affects animals.
As a conservation organization, the Saint Louis Zoo has a responsibility to constructively engage in climate change solutions.
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