Jeremy Mallinson

Jeremy John Crosby Mallinson OBE, DSc, C.Biol, FIBiol, FRGS , Director Emeritus of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is a conservationist associated with the Durrell Wildlife Park and Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.Born in Ilkley, Yorkshire in 1937 he was educated at Kings School Canterbury which he left at the age of 17 to join the Rhodesian Nysasland Staff Corp for two years as a means to discover wildlife in Africa. Upon returning to Jersey he joined the recently opened Jersey Zoo (now Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust)in 1959, and his great dedication saw him become Head of Mammals, and soon after the Director of the Trust, he retired in 2002. Jeremy Mallinson was awarded the OBE in 1997 for services rendered unto conservation. He was also awarded the Wildlife Conservation Award from the Zoological Society of San Diego and an honorary Doctor of Science (DSc) from Canterbury University upon retirement in 2002. Mallinson was a close personal friend of Gerald Durrell, the founder of the Durrell Wildlife Park and Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.

During Mallinson's early days at Jersey zoo he was charged with trapping and bringing back endangered species from often hardly explored parts of the world. In 1965 he spent two months in the Bolivian jungle attempting to find the Mitla (a legendary half cat, half dog animal) described by Colonel Percey Fawcett (who had disappeared in the Mato Grosso in 1925).

Jeremy Mallinson has published over 400 scientific articles and has also authored books about his animal experiences at the zoo and on animal collecting or conservation missions for the Trust. He has also published a book on book frontispieces and cover pages dedicated to him by personal friends Gerald Durrell and Lawrence Durrell. He has also brought out his first novel in 2004 - The Count's Cats - which was received favourably by the media.

Jeremy Mallinson has travelled extensively in Africa, Asia and South America in the course of his work. He has also reared a lioness and a cheetah outside the auspices of the Durrell Wildlife Park.

Bibliography
  • Okavango Adventure: In Search of Animals in Southern Africa, David and Charles Group, (1973), ISBN 0-7153-6259-3
  • Earning Your Living with Animals, David and Charles Group, (1975) ISBN 0-7153-6760-9
  • The Shadow of Extinction: Europe's Threatened Wild Mammals (illustrated by Don Cordery), Macmillan, (1978) ISBN 0-333-19214-1
  • The Facts About a Zoo: Featuring the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust (photographs by Al Vandenburg), Carlton Books, (1980), ISBN 0-233-97239-0
  • Travels in Search of Endangered Species, David and Charles Group, (1989), ISBN 0-7153-9346-4
  • The Count's Cats, Llumina Press, (2004), ISBN 1-932560-81-5
  • The Touch of Durrell, Book Guild Publishing, (2009), ISBN 978-1-84624-370-7 Updated paperback edition (2018), ISBN 978-1912575-435
  • Les Minquiers~Jersey's Southern Outpost, Seaflower Books, (2011), ISBN 978-1-906641-33-7
  • Someone Wishes To Speak To You, Book Guild Publishing, (2014), ISBN 978-1-909984-39-4


Edited
  • Such Agreeable Friends: Adventures with Animals, Universe Books, (1977), ISBN 0-87663-302-5
  • Modern Classic Animal Stories, David and Charles Group, (1977), ISBN 0-7153-7433-8
  • "Durrelliania": An Illustrated Checklist of Inscribed Books of Lawrence Durrell and Gerald Durrell and Associated Publications, Letters and Notes in the Library of Jeremy J.C. Mallinson, Privately printed first edition, (1999), other edition ISBN 1-900375-04-4
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