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Lee McGeorge Durrell MBE (née McGeorge; born September 7, 1949) is an American naturalist, author, zookeeper, and television presenter. She is best known for her work at the Jersey Zoological Park in the British Channel Island of Jersey with her late husband, Gerald Durrell, and for co-authoring books with him. [1] [2] Biography


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Conservationist and author Gerald Durrell and Lee McGeorge first met in 1977; two years later they were married. By the time Durrell died in 1995 they had tr.


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After Mr Durrell sadly died in 1928, Louisa and her three youngest children - Leslie, Margo and Gerald - moved to England, while eldest son Lawrence was already at a boarding school there. In.


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His American wife Lee McGeorge Durrell, 43, is leading a campaign to save the world's rarest tortoise, the ploughshare, also from Madagascar. The couple live in Jersey and the South of France.


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Lee McGeorge Durrell MBE is an American naturalist, author, zookeeper, and television presenter. She is best known for her work at the Jersey Zoological Park in the British Channel Island of Jersey with her late husband, Gerald Durrell, and for co-authoring books with him.


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Internationally, Durrell's most significant programmes may have been the 15-part series he and his second wife, the zoologist Lee McGeorge, made for Russian television in the years of perestroika.


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ITV | Radio Times Home TV Drama What do we know about the real-life Durrells and their adventures in Corfu? What do we know about the real-life Durrells and their adventures in Corfu? Louisa.


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The Durrells family's real story This is the real story of the Durrells in Corfu. An eccentric and a little crazy family lived in Corfu from 1936 to 1939 in Kontokali, Kalami, and Perama. India in the first quarter of the 20th century (1858 - 1947) was ruled by the British Crown.


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Native Memphian Lee Durrell, formerly Lee McGeorge, is currently the Honorary Director of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, an international charity with the global mission of saving species from extinction.


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Conservationist and author Gerald Durrell and Lee McGeorge first met in 1977; two years later they were married. By the time Durrell died in 1995 they had travelled the world together on numerous conservation expeditions and co-written two books: A Practical Guide for the Amateur Naturalist, and Durrell in Russia.


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"It's exactly what Gerry set out for the book to be!" says Lee McGeorge Durrell triumphantly, on the phone from Jersey Zoo, the institute her former husband founded in 1959 to preserve.


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In the mid-fifties, as Durrell became increasingly disenchanted with the way zoos were run, he began planning to open his own zoo and finally did in 1959 in Jersey. The zoo became a leading force in captive breeding of endangered species. Durrell and Wolfenden divorced in 1979 and soon after, Durrell married his second wife, Lee McGeorge Durrell.


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KOLKATA: American naturalist Lee McGeorge Durrell 's visit to Kolkata has rekindled the city's romance with her husband and India-born British naturalist Gerald Malcolm Durrell whose books have.


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Lee Durrell, as widow of Gerald Durrell, brings a particular standing and expertise to AFD. She received a Ph.D. in Zoology from Duke University in 1979 and worked alongside her late husband in the field of species conservation, popularizing it through books, radio and television.. Harriet McGeorge is a registered landscape architect with.


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He met, wooed and married Lee McGeorge, a beautiful zoology graduate from Tennessee, 30 years his junior, founded his zoo, developed his trust and became the grand old man of conservation, capable.


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Lee Durrell. 'Once I was there it became quite obvious we were going to be together.' Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian Family Interview Gerald Durrell was my hero. I married him for.