Posts Tagged ‘Brookfield Zoo’

Great Bear Wilderness Exhibit

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Last month we blogged about our behind-the-scenes look at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo’s soon to be open Great Bear Wilderness exhibit. We are happy to learn that the exhibit opened this week to rave reviews. The 7.5 acre exhibit is the largest ever built by the Brookfield Zoo and provides the very best in animal welfare, education, and guest experience.

The polar bear exhibit encompasses floor-to-sky viewing windows where zoo guests can peer right in to a polar bear’s world.  Much like the Columbus Zoo exhibit, it has an underwater viewing area to see arctic mammals dive into an 80,000 gallon pool.

Check out the great video of Brookfield Zoo’s new exhibit!

Brookfield Zoo’s Great Bear Wilderness

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Yesterday in Chicago, IL, FNA’s Grant Chem and John Gunter were invited to get a behind-the-scenes look at the Brookfield Zoo’s soon to be open Great Bear Wilderness exhibit.

Built to meet the Manitoba Standards as put forth by Manitoba Conservation and endorsed by Polar Bears International, the new exhibit is quite impressive with three separate grottos, natural substrates, large pool for the bears and underwater viewing for zoo guests, as well as large off-exhibit space to comfortably accommodate the Zoo’s grizzly and polar bears.

Hosting Grant and John were Melissa Farruggia, Campaign Director and Livia McCormick, Woman’s Board Manager. The Brookfield Zoo and Frontiers North are teaming-up on an autumn 2010 Tundra Buggy Adventure in Churchill to experience wild polar bears where we plan to turn the tables; this autumn it’s the people that will be on exhibit for the polar bears, not the other way around!

Melissa Farruggia, Grant Chem, Livia McCormick and John Gunter

John and Grant waiting in the rain for their taxi.

George B. Rabb Conservation Medal

Friday, February 26th, 2010

As we mention in our previous blog, Robert Buchanan of PBI has been awarded the George B. Rabb Conservation Medal from the Chicago Zoological Society (CZS). He will receive his award and be honored at the CZS’s Annual Conservation Dinner on March 2, 2010 in Chicago. You can support the CZS and its conservation efforts around the globe by attending the 2010 Conservation Dinner. Tickets are $150 and can be ordered by calling 708-688-8390.

Below is a great video that the CZS created to tell the story of Robert and his wonderful work with PBI. Congrats again Robert!

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