Digital light images of endangered species ranging from leopards and monkeys to snakes and sea creatures will be featured by the Empire State Building on Saturday, August 1, between 9pm and 12am.

Travis Threlkel and Louie Psihoyos, director of the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove, have made every effort to make the event a great success. The event is aimed at focusing on the plight of several endangered species. It will also help in providing footage for a coming documentary.

Threlkel said the event will serve as 'a weapon of mass instruction'. Saturday will see Threlkel and Psihoyos using 40 stacked, 20,000-lumen projectors on the roof of a building on West 31st Street to show "Noah's ark" of animals.

They will illuminate the night from 9pm to 12am. A space 375 feet tall and 186 feet wide will be used to project several animals, including a snow leopard, a golden lion tamarin and manta rays, along with snakes, birds and various mammals and sea creatures. The event is big and will cover 33 floors of the southern face of the Empire State Building.

The landmark Empire State Building is known for attracting attention of city residents for years with changes to the lighting scheme on its spire. Displays have become even more adventurous.

"The concept of incorporating art into the urban fabric and making a social statement is wonderful", said Anthony E. Malkin, chairman and chief executive of Empire State Realty Trust, which owns and operates the building.

The top of the skyscraper was illuminated in red in 2011 in a bid to recognize the dolphin slaughter the documentary 'The Cove' was based on.