The park is located at Les Augrès Manor, Trinity, Jersey, 5 miles (8 km) north of Saint Helier.

[citation needed] There are over 50 nest-boxes positioned around the grounds, which are used by a variety of birds including barn owls, kestrels, swallows and house martins.

These plans had an emphasis on the notion of "TopSpots"; places where the greatest diversity of animals are found such as islands and highlands.

The plan included projects including African Bai, an environment mirroring the ecology of the African habitat that the western lowland gorillas would need to adapt to if one day it would be safe for them to be left alone in the wild; Mascarenia, to the mammals, birds and terrapins of Madagascar, Mauritius and islands of the western Indian Ocean; and eco-lodge cabins for visitors to stay in.

[citation needed] Cameras have been installed in the meerkat enclosure, as well as in those of the Telfair's skinks, the Livingstone's fruit bats and in the Kirindy Forest, the home of a rare and colourful bird collection.

The webcam lets viewers to those species at times when they are often inaccessible, including watching the fruit bats during the evening when they are most active.

Those that are include: The Discovery Desert was opened in April 2009, and was designed to give the family of meerkats more room to roam, and prevent them from digging for freedom.

The current enclosure includes an outdoor play area, and three internal rooms, two large on-show ones and a smaller off-show one.

The family of five is led by a silverback called Badongo, who was born in La Vallée des Singes, a zoo in France.

The remaining members of the troupe are Kishka (who died in 2024), and Hlalli Kahilli a female descendant of Jambo and N'Pongo.

Jambo featured in the news in 31 August 1986, when five-year-old Levan Merritt fell into the gorilla enclosure and lost consciousness.

The Central Valley, expands across the centre of the park, creating a natural barrier and water resource for local species.

£1 million project to redevelop the central valley, completed in 2002, has created an area for kingfishers, bank voles, butterflies, dragonflies, and several species of waterfowl.

[citation needed] Since 1964 Jersey Zoo have been working with the macaque family, in the same location, just to the side of the valley.

[citation needed] Dotted around the Central Valley are a number of aviaries which house a selection of birds from different parts of the world.

Durrell took the risk of taking a recent clutch of eggs and had them hatched successfully – rebuilding the species, almost from scratch.

In 2010, Jersey Zoo undertook a project to reintroduce birds that once populated the island's clifftops, but have long disappeared.

During 2008 some pygmy hogs were released into the wild in Assam, early reports show good progress with the species.

In 2008 the project suffered a drawback when intruders broke into the complex and killed numerous iguanas, including juveniles and expecting females.

[citation needed] Work began on the Durrell Wildlife Camp[6] in early 2012, which will allow the park to sell lodging and services to visitors.

A wooded copse to the west of Les Augrès Manor has been landscaped to provide a nine-metre-square level wooden deck roughly every seven metres.

These decks will house twelve geodesic dome-shaped, semi permanent tent structures and a separate shower and toilet cubicle for each.