Last week, the first batch of captive snails was released on the island of Oahu, specifically in the Honolulu Watershed Forest Reserve of the Ko’olau Mountains. There, the snails are being ...

Last week, the first batch of captive snails was released on the island of Oahu, specifically in the Honolulu Watershed Forest Reserve of the Ko’olau Mountains. There, the snails are being housed in a ...

A rare snail species that had likely become extinct in the wild was recently reintroduced to the Hawaiian landscape. Known as Achatinella fuscobasis, the snail species had dwindled to only 11 ...

They are also just really cute.” The snails are living in the Ko‘olau Mountains in a fenced “exclosure” that keeps out predators such as rats, Jackson’s chameleons and rosy wolf snails ...