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The Field Museums extensive conservation-related exhibitions allow you to explore Earths incredible variety of wildlife, habitats, and cultures to learn more about how each benefits and supports the others. Through these fascinating and thought-provoking interactive experiences, youll discover how you can help sustain and protect our planets fragile web of life.
From September 2003 through May 2004, The Field Museums Year of Biodiversity and Conservation is offering exclusive opportunities to meet our scientists, hear lectures, visit special exhibitions, and participate in educational programs presenting Museum science in service to the Earth and its inhabitants.
You can even take our new Family Adventure tour, focusing on Biodiversity and Conservation, which will give you a fresh look at some of our permanent exhibitions focusing on these themes.
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Each month, we highlight a different theme, bringing important perspectives to some of the most provocative and pressing environmental topics of our time:
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SeptemberClimate Change
Exhibition: Polar Thaw: Global Warming in the Arctic and Antarctic
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OctoberAfrican Biodiversity
Exhibition: Africa
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NovemberGenetic Biodiversity
Exhibition: Life Over Time
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DecemberIsland Biodiversity
Exhibitions: The Natural Wonders of Madagascar: Photographs by Harald Shütz
Exhibition: Traveling the Pacific
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JanuaryBiodiversity in the Neotropics
Exhibition: Plants of the World
Exhibition: Eviction and Homecoming: The Story of Brazils Panará Indians
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FebruaryLiving Waters
Exhibition: What is an Animal?
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Exhibition: Mammals of Asia
MarchAsian Biodiversity
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AprilBiodiversity in Your Backyard
Exhibition: Underground Adventure
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MayTree of Life
Exhibition: World of Mammals
Exhibition: World of Birds
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Introduction | Investigate Biodiversity | YBC | Meet the Scientist | Explore Global Diversity | Events and Programs | Take Action! | Teaching Biodiversity | Biodiversity Exhibition | Credits
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
John Muir
Naturalist and Writer
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