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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Fresno Chaffee Zoo's attraction to taste item and relation successful advancing a statewide conservation ngo person earned it 2 of the astir prestigious awards a zoo tin win.
“To person adjacent 1 of these awards is an grant that galore institutions strive for but ne'er achieve,” said Fresno Chaffee Zoo CEO and Zoo Director Jon Forrest Dohlin. “To person 2 successful the aforesaid rhythm — for specified antithetic and meaningful efforts successful the sanction of conservation — is simply a uncommon accomplishment that reflects the breadth and extent of our ngo to animate radical to attraction for animals, make connections, physique community, and prevention wildlife.”
The Top Honors Exhibit Award was fixed to the zoo's newest exhibit, Kingdoms of Asia. Staff accidental the three-acre grounds was created with assistance from taste advisors, emphasizing the value of protecting biodiversity done immersive habitats and oral histories.
The zoo was besides recognized with the Top Honors AZA Advocacy Impact Award for its 2024 Coexist with Wildlife, California campaign that commemorated the 100th day of the past authorities sighting of the Grizzly bear.
The inaugural gained traction statewide and led to the instauration and transition of Resolution 145, which raised consciousness astir California's endangered wildlife and encouraged preservation and coexistence with nature.
“Coexist with Wildlife, California is simply a shining illustration of however advocacy, education, and collaboration tin thrust our imaginativeness for a conscionable aboriginal wherever radical and wildlife not lone coexist, but thrive together,” Dohlin said.
The awards from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) were presented during a symposium of 2,800 different zoo and aquarium professionals who came unneurotic to stock their missions and ideas for protecting and redeeming animals.
