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Gerald Durrell (1925-1995) moved from England to Corfu with his family when he was eight. 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. He grew up to be a famous naturalist and conservationist, leading expeditions to exotic places such as Argentina, Sierra Leone, Assam and Madagascar. Durrell dedicated his life to the preservation of wildlife, especially the less glamorous kinds, which he called 'little brown jobs' and 'small uglies'. It is through his efforts that creatures such as the Mauritius pink pigeon and the Mallorcan midwife toad have avoided extinction. a b c d e f "BARB – Weekly Top 10 Programmes". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board . Retrieved 9 May 2016. A fourth series was announced by ITV on 22 June 2018, with filming scheduled for later in the year. [33] It was transmitted between 8 April and 12 May 2019. This has been confirmed as the final series. [34] To me the extirpation of an animal species is a criminal offence, just as the destruction of something else that we cannot recreate or replace, such as a Rembrandt or the Acropolis, would be. Personal life [ edit ]

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Durrell was born in Jamshedpur, British India, on 7 January 1925. [1] He was the fifth and youngest child (an elder sister having died in infancy) of Louisa Florence Dixie and Lawrence Samuel Durrell, both of whom were born in India of English and Irish descent. Durrell's father was a British engineer and, as was commonplace for a family of their status, the infant Durrell spent most of his time in the company of an ayah (nursemaid). Durrell reportedly recalled his first visit to a zoo in India and attributed his lifelong love of animals to that encounter. Durrell founded Wildlife Preservation Trust Canada, now Wildlife Preservation Canada, in 1985. The official appeal, Saving Animals from Extinction, was launched in 1991 at a time when British zoos were not faring well and London Zoo was in danger of closing down.The Aye-Aye And I: A Rescue Journey to Save One of the World's Most Intriguing Creatures from Extinction (Harper-Collins, 1992) Monument of Gerald Durrell in the Durrells' Park in Corfu townThe Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, owned by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife, gives the Gerald Durrell Award for the best photograph of an endangered species, starting from 2001. Many readers will be familiar with Durrell's "My Family and Other Animals", the autobiography he wrote in 1956 about his idyllic childhood in Corfu. The Corfu Trilogy includes two more books on the same theme "Birds, Beasts and Relatives" (1969) and "The Garden of the Gods" (1978). Presumably there must have been demand for more of the same since these publication dates are so wide apart, and Durrell had published numerous books in the interim, dealing with his animal exploits, all told in a very humorous way. Durrell featured in the United Nations' Roll of Honour for Environmental Achievement in 1988, becoming part of 500 people ("Global 500") to be given this honour in the period 1987–92. We hope that there will still be the extraordinary varieties of creatures sharing the land of the planet with you to enchant you and enrich your lives as they have done for us.

The Durrells: what happened to the real-life Durrell children? The Durrells: what happened to the real-life Durrell children?

Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Durrell", p. 78). Kment, Petr (2005). "Revision of Mahea Distant, 1909, with a review of the Acanthosomatidae (Insecta: Heteroptera) of Madagascar and Seychelles" (PDF). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 45: 21–50. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 July 2011 . Retrieved 7 January 2011. The town hall of Corfu announced in 2006 that it would rename Corfu Bosketto (a park in the city of Corfu) Bosketto Durrell, after Gerald and Lawrence Durrell as a mark of respect. [20] So knowing something about Gerald Durrell, why did I decide to read this? It was the recent PBS series "The Durrells in Corfu"that sent me to this book. I loved the family, the calamity, the way they battled and fought, and their wonderful friends. I want an adventure like that! Because of the TV show and reading more about him, I've now added Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet and Avignon Quintet to my "to read" pile .Wildlife in a War Zone, using archival Durrell footage and examining the changes brought about by war in Sierra Leone, Animal Planet, May 2006 Na miña humilde opinión, non é doado reseñar libros de non ficción, pero vouno intentar. Esta é a autobiografía de Gerald Durrell durante os cinco anos que pasou en Corfú (Grecia) xunto a súa nai, súa irmá e seus irmáns. A illa constituiu o seu fogar e un gran almacén de animais de todo tipo, amizades algo peculiares pero das que quedan contigo por sempre xamais e lembranzas marabillosas.