This Is the Role Chester Zoo Played in a Major Animal reintroduction...

Chester Zoo staff rescue near-extinct snails from remote rock

Just 21 Madeiran land snails were found clinging to a rock on Portugal's Bugio Island, say conservationists.

This is the role Chester Zoo played in a major animal reintroduction...

Chester Zoo has played its part in the reintroduction if wild snails on an Atlantic island in Maderia.

Near-extinct species hatched at Chester Zoo returned to the wild

The tiny molluscs have been returned to Bugio island on the Madeiran archipelago.

Chester Zoo sends hundreds of near extinct snails into the wild

The snails were believed to be the last of their kind

Chester Zoo returns hundreds of endangered snails to the wild

Chester Zoo has returned hundreds of endangered snails to the wild as part of a conservation effort to save the tiny molluscs.The snails have been reintroduced to Bugio Island in the Madeiran archipelago, a small uninhabited island in the North Atlantic Ocean, following a zoo breeding programme that helped bring four species back from the brink of extinction.Alongside experts at ZooParc de Beauval in France, Chester Zoo was asked by the governme…