“We are urging anyone that is able to help to please consider supporting our emergency appeal. Every gift will truly make a huge difference to families who have been left with nothing,” she said.
Durrell described the scale of the crisis as “overwhelming”, and that conservation efforts were at stake: “These communities are the backbone of our conservation work; we have worked alongside these families for decades and without them our efforts to protect precious wildlife and habitats would not succeed.”
The community is in need of basics like food, safe drinking water and hygiene supplies – along with materials for the rebuilding of homes, schools and health centres.
Durrell says it is looking to raise more than £50,000 to support relief efforts.
