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Nov 29

Community conservation: Q&A with Charlie Gardner

Jennifer Parker

Growing up in Mauritius, Dr Charlie Gardner spent many a memorable weekend feeding Mauritius kestrels in the Black River Gorges with Durrell’s very own Carl Jones. Charlie has been a budding conservationist for as long as he can remember.

Nov 17

Restoring Redonda

Salina Janzan

At the beginning of 2017, I set off on an adventure quite unlike any other. I was to join the team working on the Redonda Restoration Programme and sp...

Nov 9

Bringing birdsong back to Guam

Martin Kastner

Spending time in Guam’s forests can be an eerie experience. One can be hiking through lush ravine forest in the volcanic south of the island, or beaut...

Sep 20

From one debt to the next: what does the future hold for conservation graduates?

Jennifer Parker

In the first of a two-part series on recruitment with Durrell’s Head of Human Resources, Amy Davies, Jennifer explores the difficulties encountered by...

Aug 24

Hello from Mauritius!

Rachael Derbyshire

I am currently around 5 months into the 6.5-month program, and I have had an amazing and enriching experience so far. Through work with snakes, seabir...

International Mammalogical Congress

Dr Ros Kennerley

This July, Durrell’s Dr Ros Kennerley travelled to Australia to represent the IUCN SSC Small Mammal Specialist Group (SMSG) at the International Mamma...

Aug 8
Noahs' Notes

Leah Gerber

Saving a species-at-risk from extinction takes courage, perseverance, specialized skills and leadership. In this blog, you'll meet Canada's New Noahs:...

Jul 24
Building New Homes for Wild Tamarins

Judith Ahsmann

In the wild, black lion tamarins occur in a couple of small, defragmented forests close to São Paulo. Most of the populations living in these forest p...

Jul 24
Peer review positivity

Laura King

I think we can all agree that as conservationists, sharing what we’re doing in the lab, wildlife centre, field, or town hall matters. Without that, ot...

Jul 17