There are some big changes underway for part of Fresno’s Chaffee Zoo.
The zoo started the expansion of the reptile house this week.
This is the first large-scale exhibit change at the zoo in several years.
Four new enclosures are being added to the reptile house.
The new spaces will create some mini environments for snakes, turtles, frogs and lizards.
Mark Halborsen, Curator of the Fresno Chaffee Zoo said, “We’re going to be putting in four new multi-species enclosures that will encompass three of our older ones, so they’ll be extremely huge.”
The first two enclosures should be done by the end of October and they will display venomous snakes from Africa and South America.
Money for the project came from the Measure Z fund.