Since then, the program has actually continued to gather information to help recuperate the threatened types, which is discovered in the San Joaquin Valley desert and nearby foothills.
To even more that effort, and others, the zoo is building a brand-new Conservation Action Center, which began Feb. 13 and is anticipated to be finished by the end of the year.
“This is a major milestone for the Zoo,” Fresno Chaffee Zoo CEO Jon Forrest Dohlin said in a declaration.
“We have supported several conservation organizations over the years, and now, thanks to our partnerships, we are poised to become leaders in local conservation science to help save native California species.”
The Conservation Action Center will act as space for the zoo’s future preservation efforts, and offer visitors the chance to see that operate in action. This consists of the everyday operations of the blunt-nosed leopard lizard program.
“Endangered species recovery is complex and difficult work,” said Michael Fris, field manager of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s Sacramento Fish and Wildlife Office. “The construction and operation of this center will be a vital part to recovering the blunt-nosed leopard lizard and many other species.”
The center will be spent for through a series of grants supplied by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Reclamation, though a part of the building is being moneyed through Measure Z, according to the Zoo.
