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Welcome to Durrell
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is an international charity working globally towards our mission of saving species from extinction. Committed to conserving the diversity and integrity of the life on earth, Durrell has developed a worldwide reputation for its pioneering conservation techniques.
Working with a wide range of international partners, we combine the skills of our staff at our wildlife park, in our field programmes and our International Training Centre to save some of the most threatened species in the most threatened places.
Headquartered in Jersey, the International Training Centre also supports the development of future conservationists and has educated over 1,800 graduates from around 122 countries
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Animals
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Bluey the poison dart frog
Bluey is a striking little amphibian,and as his
name suggests, is both blue and poisonous!
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Dobby, the pied tamarin - Dobby was born as one of a set of triplets, which is a phenomenon in captive breeding and is probably thanks to the highly nutritious ...
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Nelson, the slender tailed meerkat - Nelson arrived in Jersey with his family in 1999 to play an important role in captive breeding as a conservation
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Bandro, the Alaotran gentle lemur - Bandro is a lovely lemur who adores meal times! She is an
extremely good mother and has produced seven
offspring... -
Bintang, the Oriental short clawed otter
Bintang arrived at Durrell in 2006 and shares her
wonderful waterfall enclosure with her mate Bulan.<... -
Freya, the Chilean flamingo
Freya is a fine looking bird.
She struts around fluffing up her feathers and
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George, the radiated tortoise
George is rather a grand gentleman at over
100 years old. George was born in the wild and
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Homer, the wrinkled hornbill
Homer is a beautiful, majestic bird who came to
Jersey in 2001. He is an expert at juggling fruit, -
Jaya, the Sumatran orangutan
Jaya made national headlines in 2004 by being born
by emergency caesarean section – he weighed only 1.86kg! -
Merlin, the Livingstone’s fruit bat
Merlin really is a magic bat! He is a very inquisitive
creature and loves all the attention he gets from t... -
Ya Kwanza, the western lowland gorilla
Ya Kwanza is our silverback gorilla and is a very
impressive sight weighing in at 235kg!
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