LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — For Earth Day, a limited-time exhibit is bringing the world’s rainforests into the highlight.
The brand new Rainforest Journey exhibit is an interactive expertise a part of the Engelstad Basis Touring Exhibition Sequence. Ashley Glenn, advertising supervisor for the Las Vegas Pure Historical past Museum, stated rainforests are often called the “lungs of the Earth,” serving to to scrub the air and regulate the local weather.
Glenn stated probably the most fashionable options of the exhibit is a rain gauge that demonstrates simply how a lot water a rainforest receives, between 80 and 120 inches of rain annually. By comparability, Las Vegas averages solely 4 inches.
The brand new Rainforest Journey exhibit is an interactive expertise a part of the Engelstad Basis Touring Exhibition Sequence. (Photograph by Eric Jungblut)
Within the exhibit, guests can discover completely different layers of the rainforest, from the cover to the forest ground. One part highlights the huge, three-foot-wide spider webs discovered within the Rainforest. The exhibit additionally gives a number of studying shows, together with a life-sized spider net that guests can climb on, a life-sized glider the place guests can glide like a butterfly, a hen migration route tracker, and a possibility to find the distinctive creatures that decision the Rainforest residence.
Rainforest Journey runs by August 10. Extra data is accessible on the group’s web site.
