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Gerald Malcolm Durrell OBE (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He was born in Jamshedpur in British India , [ note 2 ] and moved to England when his father died in 1928.
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Whipsnade Zoo also unveiled a new island for housing primates dedicated to Durrell in 1998. [2] Monument of Gerald Durrell in the Durrells' Park in Corfu town The 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 ...
A Memorial Celebration for the Life of Gerald Durrell (1995) World of Animals episode on Gerald Durrell and Jersey Zoo, Channel One, Moscow (2004) The Wild Life of Gerald Durrell, BBC Four (December 2005) Wildlife in a War Zone, using archival Durrell footage and examining the changes brought about by war in Sierra Leone, Animal Planet, May 2006
Gerald Malcolm Durrell (born 7 January 1925, Jamshedpur, Bihar and Orissa, today Jharkhand; [50] d. 30 January 1995, St Helier, Jersey [51]). A popular naturalist, best-selling writer, television host and conservationist, Gerald founded the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and is credited with redefining the modern zoo . [ 52 ]
Gerald Durrell's trilogy has been adapted several times for British TV and radio series. Louisa was portrayed by Hannah Gordon in the 1987 BBC TV series My Family and Other Animals, by Imelda Staunton in the 2005 BBC adaptation, by Celia Imrie in the 2010 two-part BBC Radio drama, and by Keeley Hawes in the 2016–2019 ITV drama The Durrells.
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The Overloaded Ark, first published in 1953, is the debut book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell.It is the chronicle of a six-month collecting trip, from December 1947 to August 1948, to the West African colony of British Cameroon – now Cameroon and Nigeria – that Durrell made with aviculturist and ornithologist John Yealland.