Japan and Hong Kong are steadily whittling away at the last of the elephants, turning their tusks (so much more elegant left on the elephant) into artistic carvings. In much the same way, the beautiful furs from leopard, jaguar, Snow leopard, Clouded leopard and so on, are used to clad the inelegant bodies of thoughtless and, for the most part, ugly women. I wonder how many would buy these furs if they knew that on their bodies they wore the skin of an animal that, when captured, was killed by the medieval and agonizing method of having a red-hot rod inserted up its rectum so as not to mark the skin.

He continued such excursions for many decades during which time he became famous for his work for wildlife conservation. Policy for zoos
Gerald Durrell was ahead of his time when he postulated the role that a 20th century zoo should play primarily in Stationary Ark.   (Foreword)


Books edited by Durrell
My Favourite Animal Stories (Arrow Books 1962)
In case of simultaneous releases in many countries the UK edition is referred to except for companion books to TV series where both the UK and US editions are referred to.

Gerald "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell OBE (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was an English naturalist zookeeper conservationist author and television presenter. He was the youngest brother of the novelist Lawrence Durrell.