Gerald Durrell was a director of which zoo?
Gerald Durrell such a magical world.</poem> Gerald Durrell Gerald Malcolm Durrell, OBE (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author, and television presenter. He founded the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoo on the Channel Island of Jersey in 1959. He wrote a number of books based on his life as an animal collector and enthusiast, the most famous being "My Family and Other Animals". He was the youngest brother of novelist Lawrence Durrell. Durrell was born in Jamshedpur, India on 7 January 1925. He was the fifth and final child (an elder sister
Gerald Durrell the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation in 1984. Jacquie Durrell separated from and then divorced Gerald Durrell in 1979, citing his increasing work pressure, associated alcoholism and mounting stress as causes. Durrell met his second wife Lee McGeorge Durrell in 1977 when he lectured at Duke University, where she was studying for a PhD in animal communication. They married in 1979. She co-authored a number of books with him, including "The Amateur Naturalist", and became the Honorary Director of the Trust after his death. In 1978 Durrell started the training centre for conservationists at the zoo, or the "mini-university" in his words.