Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Channel Islands (founded by Gerald Durrell), United Kingdom
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Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is a member of the Association of
Jersey Charities, membership number 69,
Patron: HRH The Princess Royal Founder: Gerald Durrell, OBE, LHD
Honorary Director: Lee Durrell, BA. PhD
Chief Executive Officer: Paul Masterton.
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is a conservation organisation
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.
It’s 2009 & Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is 50 years old.
The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust was founded by author and
naturalist Gerald Durrell over 40 years ago with the mission to save
species from extinction and it has a proven track record of doing just
that.
These days the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, as it is now known
(commonly called Durrell; before, it was the Jersey Wildlife
Preservation Trust, commonly called 'the Zoo'), is a model of its
kind.
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (DWCT) was founded in 1963 by a
famous naturalist called Gerald Durrell. Its mission is to save
endangered animals from extinction, partly by breeding them in
captivity at its zoo in the Channel Islands.
The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust logo of a Dodo The Wildlife
Trust logo of a Black Tamarin
Durrell founded Wildlife Preservation Trust Canada, now Wildlife
Preservation Canada, in 1985.
renamed Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust at the 40th anniversary of
the Zoo on March 26, 1999. The Wildlife Preservation Trust
International also changed its name to Wildlife Trust in 2000, and
adopted the logo of the Black Tamarin.
* Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is an organisation born out
of the passion and desire of one remarkable individual determined
to do his bit to help endangered species worldwide.
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Birth: January 2007
Two Spiny Turtles have successfully hatched, the third and fourth for
Durrell in only two years.
A scientist working for the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust has
found a giant Montserrat galliwasp ...
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Jersey Zoo, part of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, and is
accompanied by Gerald Durrell quotes and links to important excerpts
from his major books.
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