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Exotic
Travel
Several times each
year the Zoo offers exciting opportunities to travel to exotic
locations. Some of the trips are lead by staff from the Louisville
Zoo. All of these adventures are coordinated by travel agencies with
extensive experience in safari-type travel. The Zoo also receives a
stipend for each trip sold.
So choose your “trip of a lifetime” and
help the Zoo too!
From tropical rainforests to the frozen
tundra, the Louisville Zoo invites you to travel with us as we visit
critical ecological hotspots and share the Zoo’s mission of “bettering
the bond between people and our planet.”
This year we’re headed to several exotic
destinations including returns to Churchill, Canada, and Botswana,
Africa, as well as new eco-excursions to Costa Rica and the Galapagos
Islands.
By taking these trips, the Louisville Zoo
seeks to establish a connection between our community and what is left
of the remnant wild. Eco-tourism is defined as responsible travel to
natural areas, which conserves the environment and improves the welfare
of local people. For many countries, eco-tourism is not simply a way to
increase environmental protection and awareness, but is a major industry
which positively impacts the national economy.
Each Zoo eco-tour is planned by a
world-renowned travel company, and has an educated Zoo guide as a
companion which adds to the educational and conservation elements (as
well as excitement and entertainment) of your trip! Travelers often get
together after the trip to share photos and experiences, and sometimes
even choose to become local ambassadors for the animals and habitats
they visited on their travels.
Please consider joining us on an upcoming
trip. For more information please call Kacy Durbin, Development
Coordinator, at (502) 238-5615.
Costa Rica
February 2009
Botswana, Namibia, and Zambia
July 2008
Churchill, Canada
October 2008 & October 2009
Galapagos Islands
Spring 2009 |
