A unique celebration of World Wildlife Day, with the top conservationists, scientists, and activists on the planet. This event spotlights Internaiontional projects and initiatives in the quest to preserve, protect, and save the endangered species and live in balance with nature. Meet teachers, students, and young conservation ‘rangers’ who are inspiring their communities to restore and conserve with fresh thinking and bold ideas. 

Nature Connects Us

World Wildlife Day

Bringing together conservationists, scientists, and activists to spotlight the quest to preserve, protect, and save the endangered species and live in balance with nature.

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Inside Expo: Sustainability I: The World’s Oldest Innovator

Inside Expo: Sustainability II: Harnessing the Sun

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Terra offers two different, immersive tracks that take visitors either Under the Forest or Under the Ocean in order to learn more about the beauty of the natural world. 

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See the Expo Young Innovators exhibition, which brings to life the creativity of students across the UAE who worked on developing solutions to global challenges.

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At Expo 2020, sustainability is an urgent, attainable reality, and Terra – The Sustainability Pavilion is the proof. Both immersive exhibition space and exemplar of environmental self-sufficiency, Terra is a pioneering piece of architecture that pushes the limits of renewable design.

The pavilion’s 130-metre-wide solar canopy – so vast that you could park 10 city buses head-to-tail atop it – converts sunshine into electricity for the exhibits below. Artfully funnelled natural light and local plant species, together with technologies that can reduce water consumption by 75 per cent, show the way to a sustainable future.


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Inspiring experiential journey through our shared sustainable future

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Two immersive paths to choose from: beneath a forest and beneath an ocean

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LEED Platinum environmental features, including solar power and water recycling

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Interactive Tour: Terra - The Sustainability Pavilion

Terra is a super-sized marvel of forward-thinking design. The pavilion’s technology generates enough energy in a year to power a Nissan Leaf to drive halfway to Mars, while another system captures moisture from the air you breathe and turns it into drinkable water. Enter and take a fantastical journey through the wonders of nature, humanity’s challenges and the promise of our shared future. 


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Terra is home to five thought-provoking art installations from artists around the world, with each piece demonstrating a response to the issue of sustainability.

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Terra Art Installations

Young visitors can explore a fantastical world inspired by Terra's very own octopus, Octavia.

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Co-curated with the UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), on World Wildlife Day, Expo 2020 Dubai advocates for living in harmony with nature, protecting biodiversity and saving our fast-dwindling wildlife from extinction. The core objective of the day is to engage visitors in initiatives around the World Wildlife Day celebrations to discover the importance of wildlife conservation and biodiversity for the sustainable development of our planet.

Recovering Key Species for Ecosystem Restoration

World Wildlife Day 2022

Join us as we explore the pavilions celebrating the diverse world of animal life at Expo 2020! We visit the Gabon, Madagascar and Slovenia Pavilions! Earn points and top the leaderboard, win badges and reveal treasures. Your points convert to Seeds of Change which you can pledge to the cause of your choice. Enjoy watching the show and chat on Facebook, YouTube or Twitch account to earn points! Photosensitivity warning: some locations in Live@Expo broadcasts may feature bright flashing lights that may affect photosensitive viewers.

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Join us as we explore the pavilions celebrating the diverse world of animal life at Expo 2020. We visit the Gabon, Madagascar and Slovenia Pavilions!

Use your Facebook, YouTube, Tik Tok or Twitch account to join the chat and earn points!

Interactive, chat-driven tour co-curated by you, the audience.

Earn badges, go on treasure hunts and top the leaderboard!

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With more than 10 per cent of Gabon designated as national parkland, this Central African nation is a haven for a spectacular array of wildlife: from gorillas and forest elephants to marine turtles and three species of crocodiles. 
Get wild at the Gabon Pavilion, and explore this adventure sports paradise, which boasts hundreds of kilometres of rugged forest ready for quad off-roading and eco safari hikes. Meanwhile, vibrant capital city Libreville shows off Gabon’s more cosmopolitan side, meshing African tradition with colonial French flair. 

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Experience an eco-tourism haven boasting plant and animal species found nowhere else on the planet. 

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A true natural marvel, creatures that call this African island home include wide-eyed sifaka lemurs, nocturnal aye-ayes, vividly-coloured tomato frogs and the world’s rarest duck — the Madagascar Pochard. The Madagascar Pavilion showcases the best of the island’s tourism destinations, details its efforts to make trademark industries more sustainable and highlights the potential for investors to get involved in one of the globe’s most special destinations.


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Find out how Madagascar is building a sustainable, synergetic relationship with its environment.

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Slovenia has become known as the green heart of Europe for its lush forests and picturesque lakes, and the nation is sharing this at Expo 2020. With its huge plant-covered façade and stylish “floating forest” feel, the Slovenia Pavilion is a soothing green oasis where you can explore the country’s natural treasures and sustainable solutions.

The pavilion boasts exhibits such as multisensory 360-degree projected movies and a virtual heartbeat composed of visitors’ unique biosignatures. It also focuses on the cherished Slovenian tradition of beekeeping, with features about honey spas and Slovenia’s other bee-themed tourism attractions.


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The architectural team behind the Slovenia Pavilion used the simple words “water, greenery, wood” as a jumping off point to build a dreamy floating forest. The central building is an immense glass and steel oval structure almost entirely covered in a vertical garden of local plants and flowers in varying shades of green. This cloud-like forest is set on columns that hover over a shallow pool that represents Slovenia’s lakes and rivers. 

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Live@Expo Ep 27: Slovenia, Gabon and Madagascar Pavilions

Welcome to an interactive live tour where you and a community of virtual visitors from around the world control where the guide goes and what you see! Earn points and top the leaderboard, win badges and reveal treasures. Your points convert to Seeds of Change which you can pledge to the cause of your choice.

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Join a new virtual tour of the Expo! You control where the guide goes as they explore Expo 2020.

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A fantastical show for both little and big kids alike! Guided by five hilarious characters, Humanimals will take you on a journey through the animal kingdom. This family show will delight and entertain all who encounter it.

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The Humanimals

Humanimals will take you on a journey through the animal kingdom. This family show will delight and entertain all who encounter it at the Dubai Millenium Ampitheatre.

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This conversation between thinkers and practitioners across different geopolitical realities will revolve around the concept of interdependence and how it can play an active part in rethinking the constitutive role of institutions, architecture, art or public health infrastructures. Concrete examples will be discussed about how can one nurture practices of care, what an ecology of a caring practice means, and when and on what terms can it be understood as a sustainable practice. Many sources and tools for thinking and working with the concept of interdependence reside in situated knowledges drawn from millennium old healing, ecological, divination and other communal practices. The invited speakers will explore in what ways these gestures could be part of a larger movement that rethinks our systems of production, distribution and mutual solidarity especially in the domain of contemporary art.

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Coalescing a movement that rethinks our systems of production, distribution and mutual solidarity in service of our collective well-being.

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Inside Expo: The Future is Well

The global pandemic has tested our interconnected world. Expo presents an important opportunity for all stakeholders in the health sector to design an inclusive, crisis-proof global health system that is fit for the future. The very latest health and medical technology will also be on display, including systems that are transforming how communities access healthcare and fight disease outbreaks. The programme will highlight how innovation and investment in health and wellness can contribute to a healthier, happier global community. 

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Cultures in Conversation | Interdependence in Action: Practices of Care and Commoning

World Expos have always been meeting places for people across cultures and geographies; an opportunity to come together and celebrate human ingenuity and forge meaningful human connections. As the first World Expo to be held in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region, and with the participation of more than 192 countries, Expo 2020 Dubai looks to take this legacy even further. The Build Bridges track of Expo 2020 Dubai’s Programme for People and Planet features a tapestry of event series and experiences that celebrate our common humanity and the vital connections that can help us prosper together as a worldwide community.

Nature Connects Us

World Wildlife Day 2022.