The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust was founded by
author and naturalist Gerald Durrell 50 years ago with the mission to save
species from extinction, and it has a proven track record of doing just
that! Species that have been pulled back
from the brink include the Mauritius kestrel, pink pigeon, echo parakeet and the
Mallorcan midwife toad, and our dedicated conservationists are hard at work in
threatened habitats around the world, continuing each day to protect and
conserve many more amazing species.
Due to the increasing demands of humans on the
environment, we have witnessed in recent decades, a massive rise in the rate of
extinctions.The number of species under threat has reached alarming proportions,
including 23% of mammals, 12% of birds and 32% of all amphibians. A wide variety
of species are necessary for the building blocks on which our ecosystems are
sustained and it is these ecosystems that provide us with previous resources,
such as clean water, fuel, fibre and food.
