Playing possum

Tulanians celebrated Earth Day in Pocket Park on Tuesday with animals from the Audubon Zoo, a farmers market, and booths from student environmental organizations, the Office of Sustainability, and Howard-Tilton Memorial Library.

Earth Day celebrations kick off in Pocket Park.
Students gather to watch as Lusa, a 2-year-old Virginia opossum, explores her surroundings in the Audubon Zoo exhibit at the Earth Day Celebration.
Earth Day celebrations kick off in Pocket Park.
The Tulane Healthy Veggie Club offers a variety of veggie tattoos, as well as stickers and flyers promoting a vegan lifestyle.
Earth Day celebrations kick off in Pocket Park.
Devin Sauerhoff, far left, and Ali Zaini, left, seniors from Archbishop Rummel High School survey books from the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library about local wildlife, nature and preserving the planet. On hand to answer questions are HTML users’ services staff Anthony Del Rosario, Courtney Kearney and Raquel Horlick, left to right.