Dr. Lee Durrell (UK)

Is Honorary Director of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, which operates one of the world’s foremost centres for breeding endangered species and training conservation professionals at its headquarters in Jersey, as well as 50 conservation projects in 14 countries. Together with her late husband, Gerald Durrell, she launched the Programme for Belize, which became the World Land Trust, in London in 1990.  The World Land Trust congratulates Dr Lee Durrell, on being awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in June 2011.