Chester Zoo Chester Zoo News 2021

[Fallax]

Okapi born

Chester Zoo welcomes birth of rare baby okapi

 

[Daubentoniidae]

Okapi born

Chester Zoo welcomes birth of rare baby okapi

Great news!

 

[TNT]

Wow, it's taken a while for the Chester news thread to pop-up this year! Thanks, Matt

 

[jde7582]

Yes usually a few pages in now already by this time of year, it would have been filled. With updates on the Grassland building progress

 

[Fallax]

Wow, it's taken a while for the Chester news thread to pop-up this year! Thanks, Matt

Haha yea, I had to double check to make sure there wasn't already one and I was almost sure I missed it!

 

[Themonkeyguy1]

Okapi born

Chester Zoo welcomes birth of rare baby okapi

Does this bring Chester back to 2.2 now?

 

[Kifaru Bwana]

Okapi born

Chester Zoo welcomes birth of rare baby okapi

More importantly, a female calf named Nia Nia.

 

[CaliHans]

Does anyone have the latest animal inventory for Chester? not updated beyond 2018 on their website.

 

[Themonkeyguy1]

Does this bring Chester back to 2.2 now?

After digging into this, I believe Chester are now at 1.3.

 

[Antoine]

I received the news that Mark Pilgrim leaved the zoo and has been replaced by Jamie Christon (as the new CEO).
Anyone could confirm ?

 

[Andrew Swales]

I received the news that Mark Pilgrim leaved the zoo and has been replaced by Jamie Christon (as the new CEO).
Anyone could confirm ?

This was confirmed on here - check out the UK zoos and lockdown thread, I cant add the link.

 

[Antoine]

Sorry Andrew, I missed it.

 

[OrangePerson]

Sorry Andrew, I missed it.

Surely this would be the place for such information and without going through 47 pages I can’t see anything in the UK zoos and lockdown thread so no wonder it was missed. Even a search on Mark Pilgrim doesn’t bring anything up.

 

[littleRedPanda]

I can't see any mention of Jamie Christon being CEO either. He was on TV just the other week under title of Chief Operating Officer, which he has been for a few years judging by the search results.

 

[Andrew Swales]

I can't see any mention of Jamie Christon being CEO either. He was on TV just the other week under title of Chief Operating Officer, which he has been for a few years judging by the search results.

Are CEO and COO not the same then?
I know less of Chester's structure than many (most?) on here....
Could this be at the bottom of Antoine's information?

 

[Embu]

Giraffe calf born this morning, another boy born to Orla. Video on Facebook

 

[littleRedPanda]

Are CEO and COO not the same then?
I know less of Chester's structure than many (most?) on here....
Could this be at the bottom of Antoine's information?

Mark Pilgrim still has his job role as CEO on his linked in account, so I assume they are different roles

 

[SmoothPanther]

I've just had it confirmed by my contacts at Chester, both in senior management and keeper level, that Mark Pilgrime has left the zoo and been immediately replaced by Jamie Christon as chief executive.

Apparently its part of a big shake up in the senior management. I did always think it was strange that jamie was always in the media and not Mark.

 

[SmoothPanther]

New giraffe calf is also male.Its been a while since chester had a female right?

 

[Zia]

Are CEO and COO not the same then?
I know less of Chester's structure than many (most?) on here....
Could this be at the bottom of Antoine's information?

I always thought the COO reported into the CEO and was the second in command that essentially is there to make the CEO's vision a reality.