Memphis Zoo President and CEO Jim Dean, seen here in 2019. The Memphis Zoo has agreed to turn over to the Overton Park Conservancy a 17-acre section of the Old Forest that once was planned as a Chickasaw Bluffs exhibit. (Daily Memphian file)

By , Daily Memphian

“The Memphis Zoo has agreed to turn over to the Overton Park Conservancy a 17-acre section of the Old Forest that once was planned as a Chickasaw Bluffs exhibit.”

Jim dean, Memphis Zoo and the city of Memphis— your heart is in preservation.