Animal kingdom celebrates biodiversity

Walt Disney World celebrates the year dedicated to biodiversity:

International year of biodiversity celebrated at Disney's Animal Kingdom

"To enhance public awareness of the importance of conserving biodiversity - and the threats to biodiversity we face today - the United Nations General Assembly declared 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity with the goal of significantly reducing the rate of biodiversity loss globally. 

Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park is home to animals of enormous diversity - everything from 2-gram poison dart frogs to 13,000-pound African elephants. On July 28, the theme park will celebrate biodiversity - the variety of life on Earth - with special activities for guests at Rafiki's Planet Watch from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Diverse animal interactions are a highlight.

Guests can learn why biodiversity is so important by participating in fun, informative activities and presentations, including: learning about diverse animal species; playing biodiversity bingo; playing a match the species to the habitat game hosted by the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund team; watching presentations on seed diversity by the agricultural sciences team from The Land pavilion at Epcot; seeing a display on sea life diversity; and learning about animal medical examinations and procedures taking place at our veterinary hospital.

Guests can learn about the critical role even the smallest creatures play.

Biodiversity is essential to sustaining the living networks and systems that provide us with food, water, fuel and the other things necessary for our survival. Here are just a few examples:

Most of the oxygen we breathe comes from plankton in the oceans of the world and lush forests around the globe. 

The fruit and vegetables we eat were likely pollinated by bees, and the water we drink is part of a huge global cycle involving clouds, rainfall, glaciers, rivers and oceans - and people."

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