• Going Green at the Zoo
  • Footprints
    • What is Climate Change?
    • Our Carbon Offset Projects
      • Geothermal Wells
      • Kinabatangan Forest Restoration
      • Greenland Woods
• Protecting Wildlife
• Calculate Your Carbon Footprint
• What You Can Do
• Conservation Conversations
• Conservation Grants
• Conservation Glossary

 

 

Sustainability at the Zoo

The McNeil Avian Center, the Zoo's newly renovated, state-of-the-art bird exhibit is home to close to 100 spectacular birds from around the world and 50 geothermal wells buried 500 feet below the building.  These wells will reduce the building's carbon footprint by 837 tons - the equivalent of taking 181 cars off the road.

Geothermal Wells

Worldwide Reforestation Projects

Through the process of photosynthesis, trees have the unique ability to sequester (remove) large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a permanent way. This is why developing reforestation projects locally and internationally is one of our key Footprints initiatives. These projects are designed to offset CO₂ emissions already in the atmosphere and monitored to ensure sustainable sequestration rates, providing important habitat for wildlife as an additional benefit to reducing climate change.

Kinabatangan Forest Restoration
Greenland Woods