He founded Jersey Zoo in 1959 as a centre for the conservation of endangered species, and in 1963 created the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust - later renamed Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust in his honour - of which his wife, Lee, is still Honorary Director.

Over his lifetime he presented many TV shows, and wrote thirty-seven books, including My Family and Other Animals and its two sequels, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods. It is through his efforts that creatures such as the Mauritius pink pigeon and the Mallorcan midwife toad have avoided extinction. My Family and Other Animals is Gerald Durrells hilarious account of five years in his.

Durrell dedicated his life to the preservation of wildlife, especially the less glamorous kinds, which he called 'little brown jobs' and 'small uglies'. The inspiration behind ITVs hit family drama, The Durrells. He grew up to be a famous naturalist and conservationist, leading expeditions to exotic places such as Argentina, Sierra Leone, Assam and Madagascar. Buy My Family and Other Animals 60th Anniversary Edition (9780241981696): NHBS - Gerald. It tells in an exaggerated and sometimes fictionalised way of the years that he lived as a child with his siblings and widowed mother on the Greek island of Corfu between 19. He spent much of his time studying the island's wildlife and surprising his family by keeping lots of very unusual pets in very unexpected places. My Family and Other Animals (1956) is an autobiographical book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell. Gerald Durrell (1925-1995) moved from England to Corfu with his family when he was eight.

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