Bermuda snail thought to be extinct now thrives after a decade’s effort
Special pods at Chester zoo helped conservationists breed and release more than 100,000 greater Bermuda snailsA button-sized snail once feared extinct in its Bermudian home is thriving again after conservationists bred and released more than 100,000 of the molluscs.The greater Bermuda snail...
<p>Special pods at Chester zoo helped conservationists breed and release more than 100,000 greater Bermuda snails</p><p>A button-sized snail once feared extinct in its Bermudian home is thriving again after conservationists bred and released more than 100,000 of the molluscs.</p><p>The greater Bermuda snail (<em><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Poecilozonites-bermudensis_fig1_333245855">Poecilozonites bermudensis</a></em>) was found in the fossil record but believed to have vanished from the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/bermuda">North Atlantic archipelago</a>, until a remnant population was discovered in a damp and overgrown alleyway in Hamilton, the island capital, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-29790073">in 2014</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/07/bermuda-snail-thought-to-be-extinct-now-thrives-after-a-decades-effort">Continue reading...</a>
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