This tiny snail was declared extinct but found alive on Norfolk Island in 2020; just 46 founders launched a breeding programme that has now returned more than 1,300 to the wild |
Representative Image of tiny snails thriving in Norfolk Island’s lush rainforest ecosystem ( AI Generrated Image) A tiny land snail once listed as extinct has made a remarkable return to Norfolk Island, after an unexpected discovery in 2020 triggered one of Australia’s first large-scale snail conservation and reintroduction programmes. The Campbell’s keeled glass-snail (Advena campbellii)…