Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is a conservation organization with a mission to save species from extinction. Gerald Durrell founded the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust as a charitable institution in 1963 with the dodo as its symbol. The trust was renamed Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust in its founder's honor on 26 March 1999. Its patron is Princess Anne, the Princess Royal.[1]
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
Les Augrès Manor, Jersey – headquarters of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
Its headquarters are at Les Augrès Manor on the isle of Jersey in the English Channel. The grounds of Les Augrès Manor form the Durrell Wildlife Park, which was originally established by Gerald Durrell in 1959 as a sanctuary and breeding center for endangered species. The zoological park was known as the Jersey Zoo at that time.[2]
As of 2016, the zoo was home to more than one hundred species of reptiles, birds and mammals, many of which are designated as endangered in the wild.[3]
Despite strong resistance to his ideas from much of the zoological community,[citation needed] in 1959 Gerald Durrell succeeded in creating his own Zoo in Jersey, dedicating it to saving endangered animals from extinction. Gerald Durrell died aged 70, in January 1995. His wife Lee McGeorge Durrell succeeded him as Honorary Director of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and maintains an intense involvement in the Trust's work both in Jersey and overseas.
Durrell provides intensive hands-on management of endangered species at its Jersey headquarters and through 50 conservation programmes in 18 countries worldwide.
Durrell's headquarters in Jersey is a safe-haven for endangered animals which need to be rescued from whatever is threatening their survival in their native home. Here they breed and recover in numbers while keeper-conservationists observe and study them to learn more about what they will need to thrive in the wild again.
The Trust established its own organic farm before any establishment of its kind in the UK. The Durrell Organic Farm was created in 1976 to provide the animal collection with non-chemically treated foods such as sunflowers and maize. It provides 70% of the animals' fruit, vegetable and forage needs over the year – produce which would otherwise cost the Trust well in excess of £20,000 to buy in commercially.
Dodo Clubedit
The Dodo Club is the children's wing of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.[5] The main focus of the club is environmental awareness and citizen science projects among younger members of the Trust. The Dodo Club is so named because the logo of the trust is a dodo, chosen by the founder Gerald Durrell as a reminder of man's wanton environmental destruction.
Referencesedit
^"Princess Royal to celebrate 40 years as Durrell patron". BBC News.
^Watkins, Jack (1 April 2022). "In Focus: Gerald Durrell, the 'pioneer with a marvellous sense of humour'". Retrieved 22 August 2022.
^Huntman, Ruth (26 March 2016). "Gerald Durrell was my hero … I married him for his zoo". Retrieved 22 August 2022.
^. 20 March 2021. Archived from the original on 20 March 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
^. Durrell.org. 6 January 1990. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
January 01, 1970
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