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NatGeo’s Big Blue Exhibit at Manila’s Ayala Malls this Holiday Season

By Berniemack Arellano, on November 19th, 2009

This Holiday season, there are more things than shopping that is in store for the family in the malls. Be educated and fascinated as the National Geographic Channel, together with Ayala Malls’ “Greenology” program and The Mind Museum presents the Big Blue Exhibit Live at Ayala Malls. Manila is the last stop of the Asian tour of NGC in its campaign to raise awareness and educate the Filipinos about the world’s largest animal.

The exhibit features a state of the art sculpture of a two-month old female blue whale made by professional model-makers in Australia. The said activity also features sessions, conservation and education activities, writing activities and NatGeo’s breakthrough documentary in search for a brand new baby blue in “Big Blue.”

The exhibit would go around Ayala Malls in Metro Manila from November 2009 to February 2010:

Glorietta 5 from November 17 to 26, 2009
Trinoma from November 28 to December 11, 2009
Alabang Town Center from January 4 to 17, 2010
Market! Market! from January 18 to February 2, 2010
Greenbelt Mall from February 3 to 17, 2010

Blue whales are the largest animals in the planet – and it can cover a size of two bumper-to-bumper buses, have a heart as big as a compact car and can communicate with other whales more than a thousand miles away…yet we couldn’t hear them. These are fascinating creatures which despite its size, has already dwindled to a couple of a thousand worldwide…threatened to be extinct within the next few decades due to increased human activity and interaction.

So Think Again. Bring the whole family and have a fun-filled yet enlightening Holiday Season at the Ayala Malls, together with the National Geographic Channel.