Detroit Zoo ships 500 rare snails to Tahiti in 37-year conservation effort
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·2 viewsThe Detroit Zoo is sending 500 endangered snails over 5,000 miles from Michigan to Tahiti as part of a long-running international conservation program. The native island snails had suffered severe population declines due to invasive predators in their natural habitat. The zoo has been breeding and maintaining these mollusks since 1989 to support their survival. This latest release brings the total number of snails successfully returned to the wild to over 17,000.
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