6 天之前 · The Missouri zoo coordinated the shipment of over 3,200 snails from numerous zoos to Tahiti for the release. St. Louis Zoo raised about 1,000 of the released snails.

2025年3月27日 · The snails were part of carefully managed annual reintroductions led by London Zoo conservationists, in collaboration with the French Polynesian Government, the University of Cambridge, and conservationists at Bristol Zoological Society, Detroit Zoological Society, Marwell Wildlife, Poznan Zoo, Riga Zoo, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland ...

2024年10月1日 · St. Louis Zoo staff play a key role in the effort to keep the ecologically important Partula snails from extinction in their native habitats in French Polynesia. Its keepers and volunteers raise thousands of snails for annual reintroduction releases on the islands.

2012年8月15日 · These amazing images show an adult Partula Hebe Bella Snail sharing a special edition Darwin £2 coin with its 3-week-old baby at ZSL London Zoo. The species is one of 10 highlighted by the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums ( BIAZA ) as owing its survival to zoos.

2024年12月28日 · More than 1,300 critically endangered snails have been released into the wild after being rescued from the edge of extinction, with a little help from a team of conservationists from the UK and Madeira. The Desertas Island land snails were thought to have disappeared altogether, having not been recorded living for more than 100 years.

2024年9月26日 · During the annual reintroduction of the zoo-bred extinct in the wild and critically endangered snails to their French Polynesian island home – which this year saw zoos around the world restore over 6,000 snails to Moorea – the team, led by our Senior Curator of Invertebrates & Fish and Partula project coordinator, Paul Pearce-Kelly, found ...

The giant African land snail is one of the largest land snails in the world, with a shell growing to over 20cm long, and reaching nearly a kilo in weight. Giant African land snails can are an invasive animal in the wrong ecosystem, and have pushed partula snails to the brink of extinction.

2 天之前 · The snails were part of carefully managed annual reintroductions led by London Zoo, in collaboration with the French Polynesian Government, the University of Cambridge, and a network of ...

2024年9月26日 · Saint Louis Zoo representatives announced Thursday an unmarked Partula snail was discovered, proof that the species has successfully reestablished itself in the wild and is one of the first-ever...

2024年9月26日 · A decades long conservation effort involving the Saint Louis Zoo reached a historic milestone this month with the discovery of the first wild-born Partula tohiveana snail since the species went extinct in the wild in the 1980s.