Bob Chastain is CEO of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Working at a zoo wasn’t his dream job originally, but after an internship at one, he said he began to realize their value. Now, he’s overseeing the largest habitat expansion in the Colorado Springs zoo’s history. The $13.5 million Encounter Africa exhibit, which will be home [...]
The work of some of the people at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo may someday save your life. With little notice or fanfare, the zoo’s CEO and employees regularly travel to exotic and often dangerous locales, trekking through thick jungles and crossing slippery streams to save creatures large and small that play a role in medical research. [...]
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