Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is a conservation organisation with a mission to save species from extinction.
Gerald Durrell founded the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust as a charitable institution in 1963 with the Dodo as its symbol. The trust was renamed Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust in its founder's honour on 26 March 1999. Its patron is Princess Anne, the Princess Royal.
Its headquarters are at Les Augrès Manor on the isle of Jersey in the English Channel, where what was originally called the Jersey Zoo, now the Durrell Wildlife Park, was established by Gerald Durrell in 1959 as a sanctuary and breeding centre for endangered species.
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