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from ENCOUNTERS WITH ANIMALS
Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on the edge of extermination, dependent for existence on the charity of a
few human beings.
Gerald Durrell
These words are from Gerald Durrell’s book Encounters With Animals, published in 1958. Durrell was a British writer, naturalist and conservationist who travelled the world on wildlife expeditions and wrote about the animals that he saw. There are so many “animal refugees”, as Durrell puts it, on the edge of extermination. We need to save them.
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