Word: helier
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DIED. GERALD DURRELL, 70, British conservationist and best-selling writer; of complications from a liver transplant; in St. Helier on the Channel island of Jersey. The self- described "champion of small uglies," Durrell founded the Jersey Zoological Park in 1958, where he bred endangered species to return to the wild-a controversial but ultimately effective program. Encouraged by his novelist brother Lawrence, he wrote a series of witty, educational musings on his life's work, such as The Overloaded Ark (1953) and the 1956 memoir My Family and Other Animals...
DIED. GERALD DURRELL, 70, British animal lover, conservationist and best- selling writer about the creature kingdom; of complications from a 1994 liver transplant; in St. Helier on the Channel Island of Jersey. As a self- described ``champion of small uglies,'' Durrell dedicated his life to the preservation of wildlife. In 1958 he founded the Jersey Zoological Park, where he bred endangered species such as the Mauritius pink pigeon to return to the wild. Encouraged by his novelist brother Lawrence, Durrell (pronounced Durl) began writing about his life's work, filling books such as The Overloaded Ark (1953) with witty anecdotes...