Fresno Chaffee Zoo Fresno Chaffee Zoo News 2023

[Blackleopard207]

Definitely the rain can play a major role, but I meant even updates in construction over the last year or so.

 

[Adventuredl]

The zoo has had multiple opening dates scheduled over the past year and has missed all of them due to multiple types of construction delays. They are hesitant now to put an ending date on it due to this.

 

[Blackleopard207]

Ok, do you have an idea? Not a specific date, but some kind of a time frame?

 

[Great Argus]

Ok, do you have an idea? Not a specific date, but some kind of a time frame?

Patience is a virtue.
Given the current storms and flooding its not surprising they're unwilling to pin a specific date. Let's not be constantly bugging Advenuredl either.

 

[Blackleopard207]

Sorry Adventuredl, I’m just excited for this exhibit.

 

[Zoo Birding]

In a phone call I made to the zoo a couple of weeks ago, the receptionist predicted it'll probably be close to the end of spring / early summer that Kingdoms of Asia will open.

 

[Blackleopard207]

Butterfly Garden - Fresno Chaffee Zoo

The Fresno Zoo has an all new limited-time exhibit! A butterfly garden! It will debut sometime this spring.

 

[Blackleopard207]

Fresno zoo receives $1.2M to protect blunt-nosed lizard

The Fresno Chaffee Zoo has announced that their all new Conservation Action Center will open later this year, which will be the area for the blunt-nosed leopard lizards. Here is the article.

 

[Smaggledagle]

Does Fresno Chaffee still have a Linne's two-toed sloth?

 

[UngulateNerd92]

Fresno zoo receives $1.2M to protect blunt-nosed lizard

The Fresno Chaffee Zoo has announced that their all new Conservation Action Center will open later this year, which will be the area for the blunt-nosed leopard lizards. Here is the article.

Here is another relevant article.

Fresno Chaffee Zoo Celebrates Groundbreaking of Conservation Action Center

Fresno Chaffee Zoo in Fresno, Calif., celebrated the groundbreaking of its new Conservation Action Center in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Reclamation on 13 February 2023. The Center will serve as a site for continued conservation efforts with the blunt-nosed lizard managed breeding program.

In 2020, the Fresno Chaffee Zoo joined the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Fresno State to collect the last blunt-nosed leopard lizards from the Panoche Plateau to create the breeding program.

Fresno Chaffee Zoo Celebrates Groundbreaking of Conservation Action Center

 

[Blackleopard207]

A new construction update for Kingdoms of Asia but also includes what is happening with the Conservation Action Center. Based on the video, I hope it’ll open up sometime in May. As the zoo did tell me late spring from a call.

 

[Blackleopard207]

The 23rd Construction Update has just came out. It includes a construction update for Kingdoms of Asia, Conservation Action Center, and other small changes around the zoo. Including that the Tropical Rainforest aviary has reopened!

 

[Zoo Birding]

Kingdoms of Asia is set to open June 3rd, 2023.

Kingdoms of Asia Grand Opening Announcement | Our CEO and Zoo Director has a special announcement. #KingdomsofAsia | By Fresno Chaffee Zoo | Facebook

 

[Blackleopard207]

This is so exciting! I just got their email that the zoo sent out!

 

[Blackleopard207]

Announced on April 7, the zoo has welcomed a new species, the black tree monitor!

https://twitter.com/FresnoZoo/status/1644377050990428160

 

[Blackleopard207]

After a phone call to the zoo a couple days ago, I found out that they have just started construction on the renovation of the ex-rhino habitat. Which will be converted into a mixed species exhibit for Sulawesi babirusa and Malayan tapir.

 

[UngulateNerd92]

After a phone call to the zoo a couple days ago, I found out that they have just started construction on the renovation of the ex-rhino habitat. Which will be converted into a mixed species exhibit for Sulawesi babirusa and Malayan tapir.

The ex-rhinoceros habitat? the one that the Indian rhinoceros exhibit that previously held Asian elephants? or the old Malayan tapir yard that was converted for Babirusa? the latter used to hold White rhinoceros until 1990 and then prior to that, Black rhinoceros.

 

[Blackleopard207]

Yes the old Indian rhinoceros (previously Asian elephant) habitat. It will be part of Kingdoms of Asia but it is coming at a later date.

 

[Nile Hippo Expert]

The ex-rhinoceros habitat? the one that the Indian rhinoceros exhibit that previously held Asian elephants? or the old Malayan tapir yard that was converted for Babirusa? the latter used to hold White rhinoceros until 1990 and then prior to that, Black rhinoceros.

I never knew that Fresno has had all three (Sumatrans and Javans don’t count, because no exotic place to them has either of them) rhinoceros species in its history! If they did have, Black Rhinos, then that must have been fifty or so years ago.

 

[UngulateNerd92]

I never knew that Fresno has had all three (Sumatrans and Javans don’t count, because no exotic place to them has either of them) rhinoceros species in its history! If they did have, Black Rhinos, then that must have been fifty or so years ago.

If I remember correctly that would have been in the 1960s or 1970s thereabouts. If I remember correctly, that exhibit was based on the designs of the 1960s-era rhinoceros exhibits in Elephant Mesa at the San Diego Zoo. I have a friend who used to work as a keeper at the Fresno Zoo. My friend's dad was also a keeper there, so both of them are familiar with the zoo's animal collection history. I will ask my friend more about this.