Carl is an animal lover and an animal conserve. Being an animal lover it seems like he forget to find a human love in his life as information related to his love affairs, married life, spouse and divorce is unknown.
Carls love for animal induced at a young age. As a child, he bred kestrels in his back yard. He received his formal education from Queen Elizabeth I Grammar School. After that he joined North-East London Polytechnic where he completed his BSc. In the late 1970s, he got enrolled at University of Wales, Swansea where he studied developmental strategies in owls. Later on he changed his topic and began doing research in Studies on the Biology of the Critically Endangered Birds of Mauritius. In 1979, he moved to Mauritius and he began working there in captive breeding project. He began working on the pink pigeon and the Mauritius kestrel, one of the rarest birds in the world. After he began his captive breeding project with the Mauritius kestrel, it went from Critically Endangered to Endangered and then Vulnerable in 2000. He has been playing an important role in restoring the animal and plant communities on islands around Mauritius. In 1984, he founded a non-governmental, non-profit conservation agency called Mauritian Wildlife Foundation and he has been working with Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust since 1985. The actual figure about his net worth and salary is unknown.