Rare snails lay eggs during car journey to zoo
Rare glutinous snails, previously widespread in the UK, are now found only in a single Welsh lake due to habitat disruption. Wingham Wildlife Park successfully transported some of these snails from Wales to Kent, where they began laying eggs during the six-hour journey. The zoo is part of a national conservation effort to breed the species in captivity with the goal of eventually releasing them into the wild.
- ▪Glutinous snails are currently restricted to Llyn Tegid in Eryri National Park, Wales, after their population declined due to environmental changes.
- ▪Wingham Wildlife Park curator Samantha Eden reported that 24 snails laid approximately 12 egg pods during a six-hour drive from Wales to Kent.
- ▪The park has already moved 130 baby snails from an initial colony of six adults to start a new breeding group.
- ▪A coalition of zoos and the Freshwater Habitats Trust is collaborating to identify suitable water bodies for the future release of the bred snails.
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Rare snails lay eggs during car journey to zooImage source, Dudley ZooImage caption, The glutinous snail was once widespread in the UK, but is now only found in one Welsh lakeByHannah RoeReporting fromin WinghamPublished1 minute agoA rare snail found in just one lake in the UK started laying eggs on its six-hour journey from Wales to Kent, as a zoo joined a nationwide effort to save the species.Glutinous snails are no bigger than a fingertip and used to be widespread across UK water ways.It is thought habitat disruption and environmental changes reduced their population to such an extent that they are only now found in Llyn Tegid, a lake in Eryri National Park, also known as Snowdonia.Wingham Wildlife Park near Canterbury has taken some of the wild population to breed and release into the…
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