Major Expeditions
| Year | Place | Primary purpose | Book | Film | Species in focus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 / 1948 | Mamfe, British Cameroons (now Cameroon) | Independent animal collecting mission for British zoos | The Overloaded Ark | — | Angwantibo, Giant Otter Shrew |
| 1949 | Mamfe and Bafut, British Cameroons (now Cameroon) | Independent animal collecting mission for British zoos | The Bafut Beagles | — | Galago, Hairy Frog, African Golden Cat, Flying mouse |
| 1950 | British Guiana (now Guyana) | Independent animal collecting mission for British zoos | Three Singles to Adventure | — | Giant Otter, Poison arrow frogs, Surinam Toad, Capybara, Brazilian Porcupine |
| 1953 / 1954 | Argentina and Paraguay | Partially sponsored animal collecting mission | The Drunken Forest | — | Burrowing Owl, Ovenbird, Anaconda, Rhea, Giant Anteater |
| 1957 | Bafut, British Cameroons (now Cameroon) | Animal collecting mission for his own to-be zoo | A Zoo in My Luggage | To Bafut With Beagles | Reticulated Python, Patas, Galago, Grey-necked Rockfowl |
| 1958 | Patagonia, Argentina | Animal collecting mission for his own Jersey Zoo | The Whispering Land | Look (Argentinian Expedition) | South American Fur Seal, Patagonian Hare, Vampire Bat, Magellanic Penguin |
| 1962 | Malaysia, and Australia and New Zealand | Shooting of the BBC Nature series Two In The Bush | Two in the Bush | Two in the Bush | Kakapo, Kākā, Kea, Tuatara, Sumatran Rhinoceros, Leadbeater's Possum |
| 1965 | Sierra Leone | Animal collecting mission for Jersey Zoo to be made into a TV series by BBC | Section of Catch Me a Colobus | Catch Me a Colobus | Colobus, African Leopard, Red River Hog, Potto |
| 1968 | Mexico | Animal collecting mission for Jersey Zoo | Section of Catch Me a Colobus | — | Volcano Rabbit, Thick-billed Parrot |
| 1969 | Great Barrier Reef, Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia | Conservation fact-finding mission, with possible material for book never written | — | — | Great Barrier Reef species |
| 1976, 1977 | Mauritius and other Mascarene Islands | Two back-to-back in-situ conservation missions and animal collecting expeditions for local breeding and the Jersey Zoo | Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons | The Mauritius Conservation Mission, The Round Island Project | Pink Pigeon, Rodrigues Fruit Bat, Round Island Boa, Telfair's Skink, Gunther's Gecko, Mauritius Kestrel |
| 1978 | Assam, India and Bhutan | In-situ conservation mission and filming for an episode in a BBC series | — | "Animals Are My Life" episode in The World About Us series | Pigmy Hog |
| 1982 | Mauritius and other Mascarene Islands and Madagascar | In-situ conservation mission and animal collecting expedition for local breeding and Jersey Zoo to be filmed for a BBC TV series about the Trust's role in other countries | Ark on the Move | Ark on the Move | Pink Pigeon, Rodrigues Fruit Bat, Round Island Boa, Telfair's Skink, Gunther's Gecko, Mauritius Kestrel, Indri, Madagascan Boa |
| 1984 | Russia | Shooting of the Channel 4 TV series Durrell in Russia | Durrell in Russia | Durrell in Russia | Przewalski's Horse, Saiga, Cranes, Russian Desman |
| 1989 | Belize | As part of Programme for Belize — a conservation project which aimed to conserve 250,000 acres (1000 km²) of tropical rain forest | — | — | Belizean rain forest species |
| 1990 | Madagascar | In-situ conservation mission and animal collecting expedition for local breeding and Jersey Zoo | The Aye-Aye and I | To the Island of Aye-Aye | Aye Aye, Indri, Ring-tailed Lemur, Alaotran Lemur, Tenrec |
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