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Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust / Jersey Zoo

Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust / Jersey Zoo Les Augres Manor Trinity Jersey


Situated in 32 acres of beautifully landscaped countryside, Jersey Zoo is home to some of the most endangered species in the world. Founded in 1959 by author and naturalist Gerald Durrell, the park is the spiritual home and headquarters of Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, and acts as a captive breeding facility for conservation projects, as well as being a fantastic day out for all the family!

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Jersey Zoo becomes the first zoo in the UK and Europe to be Certified Sensory Inclusive 28th Apr 2022 KultureCity has partnered with Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust to make Jersey Zoo and all of the events that the venue hosts to be sensory inclusive.…
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Hope for endangered monkeys as new baby joins the troop at Jersey Zoo 29th Mar 2022 Jersey Zoo is delighted to welcome a baby black lion tamarin to the family. As a highly endangered primate once believed to be extinct, every birth is…
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A new milestone for the world’s rarest duck 8th Feb 2022 A group of Madagascar pochards, the world’s rarest duck once feared lost, has been released into the wild as part of a pioneering conservation…
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Durrell launches Rewild Carbon; a wild, colourful, and impactful nature-based solution for businesses 30th Jun 2021 For several decades, Durrell has been reducing carbon in the atmosphere through their work saving species and protecting and restoring habitats around…
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Butterfly Kaleidoscope 17th Feb 2021 Find out more about the Butterfly exhibit development at Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.
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Saving the Madagascar Pochard 12th Feb 2021 Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and WWT have been working to save this Critically Endangered bird.
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Building in-country capacity for successful callitrichid conservation in Brazil 12th Feb 2021 There is an urgent need for joined-up conservation action for callitrichids in Brazil – including the establishment of well-managed captive populations, habitat protection, and management of wild populations.
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Development of a novel anaesthesia technique in a critically endangered anuran: Mountain chicken frog 1st Oct 2020 Chester Zoo and Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust developed a novel anaesthesia technique for the critically endangered Mountain chicken frog
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Durrell’s ‘Birdman’ is hero of new short film about climate change 20th Jan 2020 Durrell is delighted to announce the release of 'The Birdman', a short film that tells the inspiring story of Durrell's Chief Scientist.
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Durrell’s Pygmy Hog Conservation Programme 18th Sep 2019 Jersey Zoo have been working to help save one of the most threatened wild pigs in the world.
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Young storks take flight 20th Aug 2019 A group of 24 juvenile white storks have been released at the Knepp rewilding project in West Sussex as part of an initiative to restore the species to Southern England.
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Sixty years of saving species 26th Mar 2019 On this day sixty years ago a pioneering zoo opened its gate, the beginning of the global charity that is now the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.
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World’s rarest bird released into the wild 2nd Jan 2019 A duck thought to be extinct for 15 years has been brought back from the brink and given a new home on a remote lake in Madagascar.
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Rewilding - what does it mean? 4th Sep 2018 Rewilding is about restoring ecosystems, helping nature to get back on track, and then hopefully, taking our hands off, stepping away, and nature will do what it needs to do.
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Big Week at the Zoo 28th Aug 2018 A new TV series highlighting the vital conservation work, dedicated keepers and amazing animals at BIAZA zoos and aquariums around the UK.
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Jersey Zoo celebrates the arrival of three very rare little pigs this Easter 28th Mar 2018 Jersey Zoo are excited to announce that they have recently welcomed a new species to the Zoo – three female Visayan warty pigs.
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Jersey Zoo’s first Javan green magpie chick! 20th Mar 2018 Jersey Zoo are delighted to announce that they have successfully bred their first Javan green magpie chick.
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Rewild our world 29th Jan 2018 On the 29th of January 2018 Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust launched ‘Wild Things’, a short film to communicate its new vision of a ‘wilder, healthier, more colourful world’.
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When is a chicken not a chicken? 13th Sep 2017 Today is Mountain Chicken Day, a nationwide initiative to raise awareness of the mountain chicken frog, a large, Critically Endangered amphibian endemic to the islands of Dominica and Montserrat.
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Durrell’s Underhogs 21st Apr 2017 Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust loves animals. Not just the headline grabbing super mega fauna but the little guys too, the species overlooked, too small to be seen and heard - the underdog species.
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Time to be a zoo again 6th Mar 2017 Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust has announced that it will be changing the name of the zoo in Jersey, formerly Durrell Wildlife Park, back to Jersey Zoo, with effect from 3rd April 2017
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Bat on the brink 16th Dec 2016 Collaborative research by the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Bristol Zoological Society and the Comorian NGO Dahari has revealed the Livingstone’s fruit bat is likely to be the most endangered fruit bat in the world.
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Durrell appoints new CEO 26th Sep 2016 After an extensive search, Durrell, the global conservation organisation founded by the late Gerald Durrell, has appointed Dr Lesley Dickie as its new…
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Durrell's Professor Carl Jones wins prestigious conservation prize 5th May 2016 Durrell's Professor Carl Jones is this year's winner of the world’s leading award for animal conservation, the Indianapolis Prize.