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 Trust, he determined that it would be different from those zoos - alas, the majority - to which parents reluctantly take children to ride an elephant and get sick on ice cream, and where animals are simply imprisoned. His would certainly be a place of entertainment, but it would be a research centre, an educational establishment and a conservation unit as well...Guidance: due to the age of this recording the sound quality may vary.
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" Worth reading if you intend to visit his zoo on the Isle of Jersey. "
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