Snails thought extinct get new island home in Atlantic Having successfully bred 1,329 snails, Chester Zoo is now relocating them to Bugio Island, which is free from predators. Saturday 28 December ...

More than 1,300 pea-sized, critically endangered snails that were bred in a zoo have been set free to wander (very slowly) on a remote Atlantic island. The release brings two species of Desertas ...

A snail may have been saved from the “edge of extinction” after more than 1,300 born in a world-first breeding programme from the UK were released into the wild. The pea-sized Desertas Island ...

ITV News' David Harper reports on how more than 1,300 pea-sized snails, previously thought to have been extinct, were bred at a UK zoo and released back to the wild on a remote island. Tiny snails ...