The Partula tohiveana snail has been reclassified as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List after being previously declared extinct in the wild, according to a press release from the Zoological ...

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A snail may have been saved from the “edge of extinction” after more than 1,300 born in a world-first breeding programme from the UK were released into the wild. The pea-sized Desertas Island ...

On a small island in the South Pacific Ocean, a rare species once declared extinct in the wild has been rediscovered. Partula tohiveana, or the Moorean viviparous tree snail, was native to French ...

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Creatures like snails, clams, oysters and mussels use an ... who live in aboveground hives and can’t hunker underground the way wild bees can. They’re also loyal subjects.

The Partula tohiveana snail was previously declared on the IUCN Red List as being extinct in the wild, but recently it’s been upgraded to critically endangered following a decades-long ...

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Partula tohiveana, or the Moorean viviparous tree snail, was native to French Polynesia before its wild population was decimated by the rosy wolf snail, a carnivorous and invasive species.