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Exhibition for Sale from World Wildlife Fund—Biodiversity 911: Saving life on 
Earth 
Biodiversity 911: Saving Life on Earth, World Wildlife Fund's traveling 
exhibition, which was previously managed by the Association of Science-Technology 
Centers (ASTC), has completed its fully booked, three-year tour and is now 
available for sale for installation in a permanent location. This innovative, 
hands-on 3,000 sq. ft. exhibition uses science, humor, and creativity to tell the 
important story of what biodiversity is, why it's declining, and how we can 
help to protect it. The exhibition takes visitors on a fantastic exploration of 
forests, coral reefs, the soil in our yards, and much more. 
Exhibition components include a Biodiversity Theater (approx. 1,000 sq.ft.), 
six interactive exhibit areas, and a resource area and mapping station. Here 
is an excellent opportunity to purchase a high-quality exhibition at a fraction 
of the cost of what it would take to design and develop it on your own. Visit 
the ASTC Web site at 
http://www.astc.org/exhibitions/biodiversity/dbiodiversity.htm or the exhibition Web site at www.biodiversity911.org to learn more and 
see photos. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will provide two complete sets of the 
biodiversity education materials that accompanied the exhibition to the 
purchaser. To discuss purchasing the exhibition, please contact Barb Pitman at WWF by 
e-mail at [log in to unmask] or by phone at 703-931-9578 asap. WWF hopes 
to finalize the sale of the exhibition soon, so it can be moved directly from 
it's current location to its permanent home. (We've had requests to extend the 
tour, but have decided to sell the exhibition at this time.) 
Biodiversity 911: Saving Life on Earth was developed by World Wildlife Fund 
in partnership with Jeff Kennedy Associates, Inc., Aardman, and the Institute 
for Learning Innovation. The National Science Foundation, the Mars Foundation, 
and Eastman Kodak Company provided major funding for the project. 
Exhibition Summary 
The centerpiece of the exhibition is the Biodiversity Theater, which features 
an entertaining introductory film presentation produced by Aardman (the 
Academy Award-winning creators of the clay-animation characters Wallace and Gromit 
and the feature-length film Chicken Run). Using engaging dialogue and a 
creative documentary format based in a hospital emergency room, a live-action doctor 
interacts with animated "patients" to explore biodiversity issues such as 
habitat loss, pollution, and climate change. 
Six interactive exhibit areas, based on characters from the film, enable 
visitors to learn more about biodiversity by exploring exhibits such as a colorful 
crawl-through coral reef, a giant temperate forest tree, and a 
larger-than-life clump of soil. In the tree area, visitors can explore the many animals and 
plants that live in a Sumatran rain forest and also examine the effects of 
large-scale deforestation on forest diversity. In the fisheries area visitors can 
search for sustainably caught fish and shellfish in an interactive fish 
market. At the "Wild World" mapping station visitors can find out their ecoregional 
address and learn more about what makes their ecoregion unique. A "Difference 
of One" computer kiosk encourages visitors to think about personal changes 
they can make to help protect the Earth's incredible diversity from a local to a 
global scale. And a music video by the popular environmental 
singer/songwriter Billy B. encourages movement and interaction while exposing younger visitors 
to some of the key ideas associated with biodiversity.

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