{"id":315603,"date":"2026-05-14T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/315603\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:36:08","slug":"fresno-chaffee-zoos-tropical-rainforest-aviary-closing-after-nearly-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/315603\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Chaffee Zoo&#8217;s Tropical Rainforest Aviary closing after nearly 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Matthew Cardenas Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/13437649_062823-kfsn-matt-cardenas-bio-img.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, May 14, 2026 4:25PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ABC30 Central CA | Action News\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The Fresno Chaffee Zoo&#8217;s Tropical Rainforest Aviary will be closing down after nearly 40 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Zoo officials say the space is now outdated and does not support proper care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The aviary provided guests with a rainforest experience while seeing tropical birds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">All of the birds will be relocated within the zoo or taken to another facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The final day to visit the aviary is July 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The zoo says the exhibit will reopen at a later date as a non-animal experience.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, May 14, 2026 4:25PM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The Fresno Chaffee Zoo&#8217;s Tropical Rainforest Aviary will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[132142,132140,132141,112,5483,114,113,294,132139],"class_list":["post-315603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-132142","tag-aviary","tag-closing-down","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-chaffee-zoo","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-timely","tag-tropical-rainforest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}