{"id":18641,"date":"2023-01-04T12:49:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/?page_id=18641"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:29:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:29:25","slug":"our-founder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/fr\/our-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"Notre fondateur"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-li3fnj55-91b915921a16118575b36cc72bacc698\">\n.avia-section.av-li3fnj55-91b915921a16118575b36cc72bacc698{\nbackground-color:#f8fbf4;\nbackground-image:unset;\nmargin-top:50px;\nmargin-bottom:0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='mw-1000'  class='avia-section av-li3fnj55-91b915921a16118575b36cc72bacc698 main_color avia-section-no-padding avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-18641'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-2w3rt5d-6eedc4219db9dd5dcdae07a29ca23bc9\">\n#top .flex_column.av-2w3rt5d-6eedc4219db9dd5dcdae07a29ca23bc9{\nmargin-top:50px;\nmargin-bottom:20px;\n}\n.responsive #top #wrap_all .flex_column.av-2w3rt5d-6eedc4219db9dd5dcdae07a29ca23bc9{\nmargin-top:50px;\nmargin-bottom:20px;\n}\n\n@media only screen and (max-width: 479px){ \n.flex_column.av-2w3rt5d-6eedc4219db9dd5dcdae07a29ca23bc9{\npadding:50px 50px 50px 50px;\n}\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-2w3rt5d-6eedc4219db9dd5dcdae07a29ca23bc9 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-2idm11t-3093b7941d0e689b0b5c42647195d0f2'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h5 class=\"line-icon-orange\">Notre fondateur<\/h5>\n<h2>Gerald Durrell<\/h2>\n<p>En tant que zoologiste, conservationniste, voyageur, \u00e9crivain, animateur et fondateur de Conservation de la faune au Canada et du\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.durrell.org\" target=\"_new\">Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (UK).<\/a>\u00a0Gerald Durrell a eu un impact dans le domaine de la conservation que peu d'autres peuvent revendiquer.<\/p>\n<p>Gerald Durrell est n\u00e9 \u00e0 Jamshedpur, en Inde, en 1925. Quand il avait dix ans, sa m\u00e8re veuve emmena sa famille vivre sur l'\u00eele grecque de Corfou o\u00f9 Gerry fut \u00e9duqu\u00e9 par des tuteurs priv\u00e9s. De 1945 \u00e0 1946, il travailla au zoo de Whipsnade, puis participa \u00e0 plusieurs exp\u00e9ditions de collecte d'animaux au Cameroun, au Guyana et dans d'autres pays.<\/p>\n<p>Dans les ann\u00e9es 1950, Gerry publia ses premi\u00e8res histoires animali\u00e8res, qui devinrent tr\u00e8s populaires et ont \u00e9t\u00e9 traduites en de nombreuses langues.\u00a0\u00a0<em>My Family and Other Animals<\/em>\u00a0(1956) racontait des histoires sur sa famille peu conventionnelle et les insulaires de Corfou. Dans\u00a0<em>The Drunken Forest<\/em>\u00a0(1978) et\u00a0<em>Three Tickets to Adventure<\/em>\u00a0(1954), Gerry d\u00e9crivait ses exp\u00e9ditions de collecte d'animaux.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c0 travers ces romans, Gerry partageait son amour et sa compr\u00e9hension des animaux, des scorpions aux aye-ayes. Il aidait ses lecteurs \u00e0 appr\u00e9cier la merveilleuse diversit\u00e9 de la vie sur cette plan\u00e8te et \u00e0 r\u00e9aliser notre responsabilit\u00e9 de la pr\u00e9server.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-21wk5dd-1cb79780bddd0dd84e3f076b723a7118\">\n#top .flex_column.av-21wk5dd-1cb79780bddd0dd84e3f076b723a7118{\nmargin-top:50px;\nmargin-bottom:20px;\n}\n.responsive #top #wrap_all .flex_column.av-21wk5dd-1cb79780bddd0dd84e3f076b723a7118{\nmargin-top:50px;\nmargin-bottom:20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-21wk5dd-1cb79780bddd0dd84e3f076b723a7118 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1tawln5-53353447d67d0700489d2c6062d68dad\">\n.avia-image-container.av-1tawln5-53353447d67d0700489d2c6062d68dad img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-1tawln5-53353447d67d0700489d2c6062d68dad .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-1tawln5-53353447d67d0700489d2c6062d68dad av-styling- avia-align-left  avia-builder-el-4  avia-builder-el-no-sibling'   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-35990 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-35990 avia_image' src='https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Gerald-Durrell.jpg' alt='Gerald Durrell with animals' title='Gerald-Durrell'  height=\"600\" width=\"800\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-yxmbht-d0ef411d21ac9a156df96bac3e56b79d\">\n#top .flex_column.av-yxmbht-d0ef411d21ac9a156df96bac3e56b79d{\nmargin-top:50px;\nmargin-bottom:20px;\n}\n.responsive #top #wrap_all .flex_column.av-yxmbht-d0ef411d21ac9a156df96bac3e56b79d{\nmargin-top:50px;\nmargin-bottom:20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-yxmbht-d0ef411d21ac9a156df96bac3e56b79d av_one_full  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-k93tsh-e4eb85f2b13c0f399b50df8440776303'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>En 1959, Gerry fonda le zoo de Jersey, aujourd'hui le si\u00e8ge du Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust et un terrain d'entra\u00eenement pour les biologistes de la conservation du monde entier afin d'apprendre des techniques \u00e9prouv\u00e9es pour sauver les esp\u00e8ces\u00a0<a class=\"glossaryLink\" href=\"https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/fr\/glossary\/endangered\/\" data-cmtooltip=\"(E) A wildlife species facing imminent extirpation or extinction.\">menac\u00e9s<\/a>\u00a0. 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