Some of the worst affected areas on the island are home to projects protecting tortoises and lemurs, the zoo said.
Durrell’s field programmes manager, Eleanor Harvie has called on people in Jersey to support its emergency appeal to help local communities recover.
She described the communities hit as the “backbone of [Durrell’s] conservation work, without whom, efforts to protect animals would not succeed”.
‘Washed away’
Madagascar has been hit by two major storms in February, cyclone Fytia and cyclone Gezani.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced, and officials have described the aftermath as “total chaos”.
Durrell said that two places badly impacted are the Baly Bay and Lake Alaotra Protected Areas – which are home to the ploughshare tortoise and Alaotran gentle lemur.
“The people affected are our community rangers, conservation partners and their families,” it said.
“Families have lost their homes, crops have been washed away, and widespread flooding has left thousands of people displaced”.
Facilities used to care for baby ploughshare tortoises have been badly damaged and will need to be rebuilt.
