It’s always exciting when a vision starts to transform into a reality. The massive posts that will support the innovative mesh and climbing structures for Oregon Zoo’s Primate Forest exhibit have been set in their concrete foundations. This new habitat, set to open in late 2020, builds on CLR’s commitment to Activity-Based Design and will give the chimps exceptional opportunities to form single or multiple groups as they do in the wild. Many of the new features at Primate Forest — such as a stream, waterfall, large boulders, logs and more — were made possible through the Oregon Zoo Foundation’s $8.5 million Heart of the Oregon Zoo campaign, which is currently raising funds to support the zoo’s robust programs in animal welfare, conservation and education.