Jersey Zoo is a zoological park established in 1959 on the island of Jersey in the English Channel by naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell (1925–1995). It is operated by the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust. It has approximately 169,000 visitors per year.
The dodo is the symbol of the trust and the zoo. Statues of dodos stand at the zoo's gateways.
Buildings at the zoo (photo September 2008)
Statue of Gerald Durrell with a black-and-white ruffed lemur, April 2008
One of the meerkats in 2012.
A zoo is a facility in which animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for conservation purposes.
Sea lion and keeper at the Welsh Mountain Zoo
London Zoo, 1835
The Tower of London housed England's royal menagerie for several centuries (Picture from the 15th century, British Library).
The Versailles menagerie during the reign of Louis XIV in the 17th century