The Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust is Gerald Durrell’s dream come true. At the age of six he told his mother that he intended to start a zoo. Here he celebrates his zoo’s 25th and the...

Gerald Durrell was a zoo enthusiast from the age of two when he started collecting everything alive, from minnows to woodlice. When, finally, he decided to set up the Jersey Wildlife Preservation...

The enchanted island of Corfu was home to Gerald Durrell and his family for five years before the Second World War.For the passionate young zoologist, Corfu was a natural paradise, teeming with...

The true and hilarious story of how Gerald Durrell and his wife set up their own zoo in Jersey.Journeying to the Cameroons in West Africa, Gerald and his wife, helped by the renowned Fon of...

Gerald Durrell describes a collecting expedition to the Cameroons where, with the assistance of a pack of African enthusiasts and mongrel dogs, he captured almost everything, from flying mice to...

Based on the broadcasts made by Gerald Durrell for the BBC, this is a vividly entertaining account of the animals he discovered and observed from Argentina to Africa and from Greece to Guiana. We...

We find Gerald Durrell coping with uncooperative animals and TV producers during the filming of 'The Amateur Naturalist'.