Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust

🐒 Some adorable Alaotra gentle lemur pictures from Jersey Zoo to end your January on a high note! 🐒 🤯 Wth an estimated 5,000 left in the wild, these primates are Critically Endangered. 👇 Find out more about our Alaotran gentle lemur conservation durrell.org/visit-jersey-z…

✨ Happy Lunar New Year from Durrell! ✨ 🐍 How are you celebrating the Year of the Snake? 👉 Want to get Durrell news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our newsletter to keep up with everything happening this year durrell.org/enews

🪶 Join the @@Natures_Voice’s Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend! 🪶 🐦 This is the world’s largest garden wildlife study and will help to understand how best to protect our garden birds. 👇Visit their website to learn more rspb.org.uk/whats-happenin…

🐿 Red squirrels are rare across most of the UK due to introduction of invasive grey squirrels, but are a common sight at Jersey Zoo. 🌰 Squirrels are hugely important to the ecosystem, as their habit of burying seeds and forgetting where they are means they’re gardening for us.

📣 Members, don’t miss out on this exclusive offer! 📣 ⭐️ To celebrate the 100th birthday of our founder, Gerald Durrell, members can stay overnight at Durrell Wildlife Camp for just £100 a night! 👇Find out more and book your stay here👇 bit.ly/4fZsWSJ

✨ Improving primate welfare and social wellbeing, one willow at a time! ✨ 🦍 Discover how Jersey Zoo Keeper Aoife and the Mammal Department are pioneering new methods of feeding our animals throughout winter. 👇 Read more below 👇 durrell.org/news/durrell-d…

📖 Don’t forget to grab 'Myself And Other Animals' at the zoo tomorrow! 📖 ✨ To celebrate the release of Gerald Durrell's posthumous book, our founder's centenary year, Lee will be signing copies tomorrow in Jersey Zoo’s gift shop from 11am-1pm. 👉 durrell.org/events/book-si…

🌎 Teams around the world celebrate Gerald Durrell’s 100th birthday! ⭐️ Would your organisation like to be a part of GD100? We have unique partnership opportunities as we celebrate this momentous occasion. 👉 durrell.org/gd100 or contact us at durrell.org/contact-us

⭐️ Yesterday, our teams celebrated what would have been the 100th birthday of Gerald Durrell. 💚 Lee Durrell, widow of Gerald, unveiled a plaque at the Manor House where the conservationist lived within the grounds of Jersey Zoo. 👇 Find out more durrell.org/news/gerald-du…

Today is the birth centenary of Gerald Durrell, the remarkable British naturalist and writer whose most famous book - first published as My Family and Other Animals - was described as the Harry Potter of its day, and is still very popular. He was actually born in Jamshedpur (his parents too were born in India) but he moved back to the UK when he was three years old. He retained a keen interest in India and had been in touch with Indira Gandhi in the late 1970s. Later, the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust helped launch the Pygmy Hog Conservation Programme near Guwahati in 1995. This smallest and rarest of pig species had faced imminent extinction but by now, close to 60 pgymy hogs have been released into its historical habitat in Assam's Manas National Park and Tiger Reserve. Its population in the Orang National Park, also in Assam, is now probably around 150 or so. The pygmy hog may not be as magnificent like the tiger, rhinoceros, lion, or elephant but the success India has had in its conservation spearheaded by Dr. Goutam Narayan deserves to be better known and applauded. I had last visited his Pygmy Hog Research and Breeding Centre at Basishta, Guwahati in Aug 2017 and it was a memorable experience.

🌱 Will you join us on our 100-year journey to revive a magnificent landscape for future generations? 🌿 💚 You can help us start to restore this important piece of the Scottish Highlands for both people and wildlife. 👇 Find out how bit.ly/3YAUx64

🔎 Searching for a new job for 2025? 🔎 💚 Help create a wilder, healthier, more colourful world by joining the Durrell team! 👇 View vacancies #vacancies" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">durrell.org/get-involved/j…

🎄 Happy Christmas from everyone at Durrell! 🎄 💚 We hope you have a wonderful festive season full of celebrations.

🎁 A present for me?! 🎁 💚 Give a gift to the animals and keepers at Jersey Zoo this Christmas. Check out each team’s wishlist 👇 🦆 amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls… 🐢amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls… 🦍 amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls…

🦢 Swan Lake? No, Duck Pond! 🦆 🎄 Christmas came early for our blue-billed teal, ferruginous, white-faced whistling, and white backed ducks at Jersey Zoo.

New paper! If you use time-lapse cameras, this one's for you! Proud of this collaboration with @UEA_CMP's Marcus Jenkins & Michal Mackiewicz to improve object detection for time-lapse imagery using temporal features. 📷🖥️⏲️ Open Access @Sensors_MDPI: mdpi.com/3088004

🐒 Enjoying tucking into their advent calendar, our black lion tamarins are the flagship species of our Rewild Carbon project in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil. 🌳 We aim to plant 7 million trees by 2030 to restore 5,000 hectares of their forest home. 👉 durrell.org/conservation/s…

🦫 1 in 9 species in Scotland is at risk of extinction 🦋 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Decades of historical land use has left wildlife fragmented on the Dalnacardoch estate 🌱 You can help recover this landscape for future generations to reconnect with native biodiversity 👉 bit.ly/3YAUx64

We’re thrilled to award a £7,190 CI Lottery grant to @DurrellWildlife to teach students about Gerald Durrell’s conservation legacy as part of his centenary in 2025. Could your charity be next? Check our 2025 grant deadlines and apply: jerseycommunityfoundation.org/our-funds/gran… #JerseyCI

⭐️ Take part in the Founder’s Trek to celebrate 100 years since the birth of Gerald Durrell. ⭐️ 🐗 Walk 60km from Gerry’s birthplace in West Bengal to the grasslands of Assam, home of the Pygmy Hog Conservation Programme. 👉 durrell.org/events/founder… 📷 Parag Deka