Goats, rodents and habitat loss threatened the snails on Deserta Grande Island, so the mollusks were reintroduced on a ...

Over 1,300 critically endangered tiny snails reintroduced into their natural habitat in December on the Desertas Islands, ...

Bristol was at the time caring for a critically endangered species of spider from the Desertas Islands – managing to breed ...

More than 1,300 pea-sized Desertas Island land snails have been released after a successful breeding programme by Chester Zoo ...

UK zoo have been sent to Bugio Island in the Atlantic where they will roam - slowly - across the rocky island. | ITV National ...

More than 1,300 pea-sized, critically endangered snails that were bred in a zoo have been set free to wander (very slowly) on ...

Have you already heard of the archipelago just outside of the island of Madeira, called Desertas Islands? This natural reserve is a unique place to visit, with wild landscapes and complete absence of ...

More than 1,300 pea-sized snails, once believed to have gone extinct after no sightings were recorded for more than a century, have been released into the wild. Two species of the Desertas Island land ...

Experts rediscovered tiny populations of the two species and sixty were flown to Chester Zoo in a last-ditch attempt to boost ...

Tiny snail not seen for more than a century saved from extinction - The pea-sized snail was believed to have gone extinct ...

The Desertas Islands in Madeira are a rocky habitat in the North Atlantic (Chester Zoo) “Crucially, we were then successful in breeding multiple generations,” she said. “This was key because ...