Durrell, Gerald Malcolm

Durrell, Gerald Malcolm
▪ 1996

      British naturalist (b. Jan. 7, 1925, Jamshedpur, India—d. Jan. 30, 1995, St. Helier, Jersey), gained international stature among conservationists for his pioneering yet sometimes controversial role in preserving and breeding endangered species by housing them in zoos with the intention of eventually returning them to the wild. He was also a prolific author, producing more than 35 amusing and informative books about the animal kingdom and his adventures in pursuit of threatened species. Durrell's love of animals began when he was a boy living on the Greek island of Corfu. After his family returned to Britain, he became an assistant at the Whipsnade Zoological Park in Bedfordshire and was encouraged by his brother, novelist Lawrence, to write about his passion for nature. Durrell's first book, The Overloaded Ark (1953), was a best-seller and was followed by such popular successes as Three Singles to Adventure (1954), My Family and Other Animals (1956), A Zoo in My Luggage (1960), and Birds, Beasts, and Relatives (1969), the sales of which helped support his expeditions and conservation efforts. An inheritance and loan financed the founding on Jersey, one of the Channel Islands, of the Jersey Zoological Park in 1959 and the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust in 1963. Besides writing about his extensive travels to such locales as Argentina, Paraguay, Sierra Leone, Mexico, Australia, Mauritius, and Madagascar (where he captured a thought-to-be-extinct lemur, the aye-aye), Durrell produced a series of television programs, among them "Two in the Bush" (1962), "The Amateur Naturalist" (1983), and "Ourselves and Other Animals" (1987). In 1976 he erected, adjacent to the Jersey zoo, the International Training Centre, an educational facility that trained more than 700 scientists and field-workers from 80 countries. In 1983 Durrell was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his wildlife conservation work.

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