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 Collection. Ashley Glenn, advertising supervisor for the Las Vegas Pure Historical past Museum, stated rainforests are generally known as the “lungs of the Earth,” serving to to scrub the air and regulate the local weather.
Glenn stated some of the widespread 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 every year. 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 Collection. (Picture by Eric Jungblut)
Within the exhibit, guests can discover completely different layers of the rainforest, from the cover to the forest flooring. One part highlights the large, three-foot-wide spider webs discovered within the Rainforest. The exhibit additionally affords 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 chance to find the distinctive creatures that decision the Rainforest house.
Rainforest Journey runs via August 10. Extra info is out there on the group’s web site.
