The snail extinction prevention program(SEPP)is a program founded in 2012 , that is trying to prevent the extinction of Hawaii's many rare snails such as Achatinella.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
Snail enclosures
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One of the ways the SEPP tries to save those rare snails in by keeping them in an fenced and constantly monitored enclosure in the Hawaiian forest that keeps them away from invasive snails ,such as the Rosy Wolfsnail and other introduced predators,such as rats,land Flatworms ,and Iguanas .[1][3]
Enclosure walls
editThe walls of the SEPP snail enclosures are lined with a steel fence,to protect the with a rim to insure Wolfsnails don’t climb over the fence .[1] Behind the steel fence, there is an electrical fence to insure that any Wolfsnails that do get in don’t go in and swallow any snails whole(Wolfsnails swallow the native snails whole）.[1][2]
Lab snails
editThe SEPP also keeps snails in an laboratory in hawaii.[1][7]
Snail evacuation
editOnce there was an hurricane and the snails that lived in the lab had to be evacuated.[1][7]
Notes
edit- the reference that brings you to https://www.gbif.org/seach?q=Achatinella is the link to the gbif search for Achatinella, not SEPP.
See also
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edit- ^ a b c d e f Dooren, Thom van (2022). A World In A shell snail stories for a time of extinctions. MIT press. ISBN 9780262547345.
- ^ a b "Snail Extinction Prevention Program". dlnr.hawaii.gov.(offical web page for Snail Extinction Prevention Program)
- ^ a b "Search". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
- ^ "Biodiversity and Extinction of Hawaiian land snails:how many are left now and what we must do to save them". academic.oup.com. doi:10.1093/icb/icy043. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
- ^ Van Dooren, Thom; Chrulew, Matthew, eds. (2022). Kin: thinking with Deborah Bird Rose. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-1-4780-2266-4.
- ^ Bezan, Sarah; McKay, Robert, eds. (2022). Animal remains. Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-50648-8.
- ^ a b c [1]