With photographs.
"Ever since I was quite small I have wanted to have my own zoo. When I grew up I traveled all over the world, catching wild animals for other people’s zoos, and I found it heartbreaking to have to part with a creature that I had spent six months looking after and brought back from some strange part of the world.
Well, eventually I managed to save enough money to start my own zoo. I came to Jersey, in the Channel Isles, which are owned by Great Britain but are quite close to France. There I found a lovely old manor house with beautiful grounds, the perfect setting for my animals.
I have tried to make my zoo different from other zoos in a number of ways. For example, we try to get creatures that other zoos do not have, and we try to keep them as tame as possible, so that they are always ready to show themselves to the visitors. Another thing we are trying to do, which I think is very important, is to save various kinds of birds, animals and reptiles from becoming extinct. All over the world many different kinds of animal might disappear altogether as the forests are cut down, roads and towns built, and the land ploughed up for farms. This is a great pity, for many of these creatures are beautiful and interesting, and it would be a terrible thing if they were to vanish for ever. In my zoo, we are attempting to gather together some of these rare animals, so that they can live comfortably, well fed, protected from their enemies, able to rear their young in peace."