Arctic Ambassador Center

Welcome to the Tulsa Zoo Arctic Ambassador Center

Polar Bears International (PBI)  declared 2008 the Year of the Polar Bear.  The Tulsa Zoo has partnered with PBI and agreed to serve as an “Arctic Ambassador Center” to help educate people about polar bears and the arctic. 
 
Recent studies concerning the shrinking sea ice in the Arctic and the declining numbers of polar bears have highlighted the importance of taking action to help promote the conservation of this unique species and its habitat.  Click here to read more about polar bears and their conservation.

Activities:
A National Teen Contest called Project Polar Bear for teens ages 14-17.  Local teens are invited to participate and be judged in the local contest.  One team will be selected to go on to the semi-finals!

Participation in the 2008 Leadership Camp.  A local high school student will travel to Churchill in Manitoba Canada to work with scientists in the field, collecting data and reporting back to their classmates via daily Web journals. 

Project Thermo-stat allows you to measure your carbon footprint! It also offers a checklist of things that you can do to lower it, and allows each family to decide on whether they would like to make a pledge to reduce their carbon footprint.  It has some good tools and a lot of useful information. Please take a few moments to check it out.

Click here to see other activities YOU can do to help reduce your carbon footprint and help the polar bears.