We Attended Lee Durrell's Lecture

Lee Durrell visited Hungary, organized by the Jane Goodall Institute, and we were invited to his lecture, as well as the opportunity to promote our Association at a separate booth. Lee Durrell is an American naturalist, writer, honorary director of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Foundation, and the widow of the British zoologist and writer Gerald Durrell.

The mission of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is to save rare and endangered species from extinction. The trust's headquarters is located at the Jersey Zoo in the Channel Islands.

During her lecture, Lee Durrell spoke about how the Durrell Trust operates in terms of species preservation and rewilding projects, as well as how the role of zoos has changed in today's world.

She concluded her presentation with the words of William Beebe, zoologist and writer:

"The beauty and genius of a work of art can be recreated if its original material form is destroyed; a lost melody can resurface in the soul of a composer; but when the last representative of a species dies, a new Earth and a new Heaven must be created before it can take the stage again."

For more information about the event, please read the article here:

https://mandiner.hu/cikk/20190923_lee_durrell_a_pusztulo_szigetek_visszavaditoja_budapesten 

We would like to thank the Jane Goodall Institute for the invitation!

The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust website: www.durrell.org