06/22/23 – RARE HAWAIIAN LAND SNAILS REACH TOP SPEED OF 50 MILES PER HOUR

JOSH GREEN, M.D. GOVERNOR DAWN CHANG CHAIRPERSON For Immediate Release:  June 22, 2023 RARE HAWAIIAN LAND SNAILS REACH TOP SPEED OF 50 MILES PER HOUR 8,000 Snails Make the Trip to a New Home To view video please click on photo or view at this link: https://vimeo.com/838837071 (HONOLULU) – Granted, they had assistance from the drivers of 10 vehicles, who moved thousands of rare, threatened, and endangered Hawaiian snails from their home in Kailua to new digs in the Pearl City area, this morning. Their caretakers have dubbed the transfer, “The Great Snail Bail,” and believe it could well be a record for the number of protected species moved from one place to another at one time. Dr. David Sischo runs the state’s Snail Extinction Prevention Program and for the past seven years he and his team have cared for 8,000 snails, representing 38 critically imperiled species, from a small trailer. Supervising today’s transfer, Sischo observed, “We had the last individuals in the world of some of these species, all in boxes, traveling over the H-3. These snails may be small, but they are no less important than large charismatic endangered species like monk seals. Imagine moving 8,000 monk seals.”
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