Conservationists stumbled across the rare creature during their annual release of zoo-born snails in French Polynesia.
Global conservation partnership releases the first captive-bred population of Guam kingfishers into the rainforests on ...
A species of tropical tree snail is no longer extinct in the wild following a successful reintroduction project.
The small snail is the very first invertebrate species to ever be successfully reintroduced into the wild after going extinct ...
Caretakers released six Guam kingfishers, a bird species known locally as sihek, into the wild on Palmyra Atoll on Sept. 23, ...
Conservations have successfully re-established more than 6,000 'extinct' snails back into the wild in French Polynesia.
The sihek are native to the forests of Guam, a Pacific island, and are culturally important to the CHamoru people. First ...
A once-extinct snail species has been found after four decades in French Polynesia::Conservationists found them ...
The Guam kingfisher was deemed extinct in the wild in 1988. Twenty-nine of them were rescued and taken to zoos across the ...
On the tropical island of Moorea in French Polynesia, a species of snail about the size of a Skittle candy is cause for ...
The beautiful orange and blue Guam kingfisher ( Todiramphus cinnamominus ), also known as the sihek, has been extinct in its ...
A species of tropical tree snail is no longer extinct in the wild following a successful reintroduction project.