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NEWS and VIEWS Gerald Durrell OBE: 1925-1995 Minating in His First Book, the Overloaded Ark, Which Was Published in 1953 SAVANNAH PERSPECTIVE you put the many genies back into their bot- gered species may well be the least of our tles? Will we pursue co-operation rather than worries when eight billion bodies crowd the confrontation and domination? If so, do we planet. Second, our worship of growth even know how? Can we invest in peace, en- economies, continual expansion, materialism, vironment and the long-term future rather and increased living standards will complete than the domination of one another and of the the task if sheer numbers do not. An ethical Earth? Do we have a choice? bankruptcy that favours short-term profit over It is these types of issues that I hope to ad- long-term stability, and amusement parks and dress in the coming months. I wish to pursue mega-malls over a holistic land ethic will con- the philosophical and ethical underpinnings, tinue to make us all poorer of soul, if richer of from a North American perspective, that seem body for a few. These trends and others like necessary to guide humanity through the them will continue to destroy the species and rough waters of change as we fundamentally ecosystems that appear in these pages and in alter the way we must do business with and similar journals. The view from each of our on the Earth. I believe that here in North windows is telling, and continually changes. America great and fundamental changes will Some of the changes are positive, while many be necessary in the relationship between hu- others continue to degrade nature and the mans and the Earth if our collective future is human condition. The view out of my own to hold much promise for things wild and window offers both hope and a challenge - free, and the ecosystems upon which they and hope that humanity and nature can co-exist on we depend. Our apparently suicidal refusal to a larger scale, and a challenge for all of us to acknowledge and then deal with the human determine how that can be done. It will not be population juggernaut is primary on the list. If easy, but it may well be the most important we cannot come to grips with that, I believe thing humanity has ever done. the world will be a much uglier place; endan- NEWS AND VIEWS Gerald Durrell OBE: 1925-1995 minating in his first book, The Overloaded Ark, which was published in 1953. It was an imme- Gerald Malcolm Durrell was born on 7 diate success and the income from his writing January 1925 in India, but when his father was to finance a series of collecting ex- died in 1928 the family started a peripatetic peditions written up in the books that fol- life that eventually brought them to rest on the lowed. The Bafut Beagles, published in 1954, is Greek island of Corfu, where they stayed until my personal favourite and encapsulates the outbreak of World War II. It was on Corfu Durrell's ability to observe human foibles and that the Greek biologist Theodore Stephanides to anthropomorphize wildlife but never senti- taught the young Gerry and had a profound mentalize it. And, of course, his robust sense influence on his future life. After attempts at of humour is omnipresent. In 1951 he married schooling in wartime England he gained a Jacqueline Rasen and she accompanied him on position as a student keeper at the Zoological many of his collecting, and later filming, expe- Society of London's Whipsnade Zoo Park. A ditions until the marriage was dissolved in legacy of £3000 in 1947 (a significant sum in 1979. His second wife, Lee McGeorge, accom- those days) enabled him to finance the first of panied him on most of his later travels and his many collecting trips. And the rest is also co-authored books with him. history ... at least it is all pretty well docu- In 1959 he founded Jersey Zoological Park, mented in his 37 books. which rapidly became transformed into a con- After his third expedition to Africa, in 1950, servation-based collection under the auspices he commenced writing and broadcasting, cul- of the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust 70 © 1995 FFPS, Oryx, Vol 29, No 2 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.34.90, on 28 Sep 2021 at 05:58:15, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605300020937 NEWS AND VIEWS (JWPT), which he founded in 1964. From the early 1960s, his work centred on ensuring his 'Ark' would survive. A world-wide reader- ship ensured that almost all of his books sold well, although not all managed to retain the originality or spontaneous humour of the best. He was not a 'committee man' but recognized the necessity of committees and I first met him through the then Fauna Preservation Society (FPS) Chairman, Lord Craigton, who was also on the Council of the JWPT. In 1986 Gerald Durrell was elected a Vice-President of the FFPS (and his wife Lee was elected to Council). The JWPT and the FPS had been joint organizers of the First World Conference on Breeding Endangered Species in Captivity, held in Jersey in 1972, and remained closely Gerald Durrell with a Russian desman at the Oka associated with the subsequent conferences. Reserve south-west of Moscow (John Hartley). Aside from the public figure appearing in numerous films and as the author of numer- ous books, Durrell was a larger-than-life fig- ure in many respects. His enthusiasm was Ninth Meeting of the Conference truly infectious and inspired tremendous loy- of the Parties to CITES alty - several of the staff at the JWPT have been there since its inception. It is a measure Fort Lauderdale, November 1994 of his success that when he disappeared to southern France for a stint of writing he had in A record 96 per cent of Parties (119 nations) at- place an organization that was fully func- tended the ninth meeting of the Conference of tional. He was a true leader, who did not inter- the Parties to the Convention on International fere with the day-to-day minutiae. Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna Durrell's story-telling abilities are legend- and Flora (CITES) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, ary, and he could easily fill an evening with USA, from 7 to 18 November 1994. The 1600 anecdotes - as he did at an FFPS members' people that attended included representatives meeting in Cambridge. And he could be even from 221 non-governmental organizations more hilarious when describing certain mem- (more than at any previous meeting) and sev- bers of the zoological and conservation estab- eral non-party government observers. The lishment. It was humour without malice, but meeting considered 135 proposals concerning he was a doer and had little time for conserva- amending the Appendices to the Convention tionists who spent most of their time going as well as discussing and passing resolutions from conference to conference, from commit- on a number of issues. Table 1 lists the propos- tee to council to working group. als accepted by the meeting. The legacy that Durrell has left is enormous. Among the proposals that were withdrawn His books have entered the school curriculum, during the course of the meeting was one where they will probably inspire a new gener- from South Africa seeking to transfer its ation of naturalists. And the Jersey Wildlife population of African elephant Loxodonta Preservation Trust is not only a model that africana from Appendix I to Appendix II to zoos are measured against, but is also a major allow trade in elephant products 'other than education force, training zoo personnel from ivory'. South Africa was specifically seeking all over the world. approval to sell hides and meat from the hun- John A. Burton dreds of elephants culled annually in Kruger © 1995 FFPS, Oryx, Vol 29, No 2 71 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.34.90, on 28 Sep 2021 at 05:58:15, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605300020937 NEWS AND VIEWS Table 1. Changes to the Appendices as agreed at the Ninth Meeting of the Parties to CITES Newly listed on Appendix I Transferred from Appendix I to Appendix II Megamuntiacus vuquangensis Giant muntjac Manis temminckii Cape pangolin Pseudoryx nghetinhensis Vu Quang ox Hyaena brunnea Brown hyaena Agelaius flavus Saffron-cowled blackbird Felis bengalensis bengalenis Sphenodon spp. Tuataras (excluding populations of Bufo periglenes Golden toad Bangladesh, India and Thailand) Leopard cat Ceratotherium simum simum (South Transferred from Appendix II to Appendix I African population, live animals and hunting trophies only) White rhinoceros Acerodon jubatus Golden-capped fruit bat Vicugna vicugna (High Andes Acerodon lucifer Panay giant fruit bat populations) Vicuna Ailurus fulgens Red panda Psittacus erithacus princeps African grey parrot Anas aucklandica aucklandica Auckland island teal Melanosuchus niger (Ecuador Black caiman Anas aucklandica chlorotis Brown teal Eos histrio Red-and-blue lory population: zero quota for 2 years) Testudo kleinmanni Egyptian tortoise Pachypodium brevicaule (with 0 quota) Scleropages formosus Pachypodium namaquanum Leuchtenbergia principis Agave cactus (Indonesian population) Asian arowana Mammillaria plumosa Feather cactus Pachypodium ambongense Euphorbia primulifolia Euphorbia cremersii Cattleya skinneri Christmas orchid Aloe albiflora, A. alfredii, A. bakeri Dwarf aloes A. bellatula, A. calcairophila Didiciea cunninghamii A. compressa including var. Lycaste skinneri var. alba White nun orchid rugosquamosa and schistophila, A. delphinensis, A. desconingsii, A.fragilis Deletions from Appendix I A. haworthioides including var.
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