Durrell Conservation Academy

🦦 WORLD OTTER DAY 🦦

Here, at Durrell’s HQ in Jersey Zoo, we have two beautiful Giant Otters – mum and daughter duo Alexandra and Fia.

📋 Playful and noisy, they made a great subject for one of our DESMAN groups to practice their behaviour observation skills, learned during our Research and Analytical Skills week.

👇 Find out more about our Giant Otters: https://www.durrell.org/visit-jersey-zoo/meet-our-animals/mammals/giant-otter/

👇 Find out more about our DESMAN course: https://www.durrell.org/conservation/training/courses/

🌊 From classroom to coastline...

🏝️ Part of our DESMAN course includes field trips across the island, giving students the opportunity to see real-life conservation work in action in the place they are studying.

We recently visited Sorel where our Red-billed Chough Reintroduction project is based.

🐏 We learned about the various aspects of this project including the land management of the area - the Manx Loaghtan sheep were a hit.

💻 We met up with Abbie Thomson (Bird Keeper, Jersey Zoo) at the aviary who answered all our questions and showed us how the team observe and record behaviour which is especially important during breeding season.

👇 Find out more
Chough project: https://www.durrell.org/conservation/species/birds/red-billed-chough/
DESMAN: https://www.durrell.org/conservation/training/courses/

📸 Chough - D. Farrant, WPC
📸 Manx Loaghtan Sheep - J. Kissell, WPC