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Chinese experts complete snail control campaign against schistosomiasis in Tanzania's Zanzibar

People Daily 25 Dec 2025
24 (Xinhua) -- The expert team of the China-aided Zanzibar schistosomiasis control project has completed a three-month comprehensive snail control operation across all key schistosomiasis-related water bodies in Tanzania's Zanzibar.
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Snails on a plane: Australia flies rescue mission to Norfolk Island for a tiny, critically endangered species

The Observer 21 Dec 2025
Inside were thumbnail-sized snails, hundreds of them, with delicate, keeled shells ... How Australian scientists brought Norfolk Island’s thumbnail-sized snails back from the brink of extinction ... Each snail was painstakingly tagged.
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Susan Monshaw: Snail mail Christmas cards are actually thoughtful gifts

Daily Advance 20 Dec 2025
I see Christmas cards as tiny gifts. I feel this way about birthday cards, too. The ones that arrive in the mailbox, cold and a little bent around the edges. They represent thoughtfulness in so many ways. Someone took the ... .
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Snails on a plane: Australia flies rescue mission to Norfolk Island for a tiny, critically ...

The Guardian 20 Dec 2025
The Campbell’s keeled glass-snail is officially extinct, but researchers have ‘high hopes’ that translocation will allow the population to thrive.
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Moth orchid has been damaged by slugs or snails

Straits Times 19 Dec 2025
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This ocean snail creates its own raft of bubbles

Caller Times 17 Dec 2025
the purple storm snail, Janthina janthina. These delicate snails are rarely seen unless strong onshore winds push the offshore world right up to our toes, and each one that washes ashore carries a story of remarkable survival at the ocean’s surface.
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Protected snails moved for A47 upgrade project

BBC News 15 Dec 2025
The snails are thriving in new sites they have been moved to, a report says ... .
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Protected rare Norfolk snails moved for A47 upgrade project

BBC News 15 Dec 2025
A group of endangered snails have been relocated which could allow progress to continue on a major road scheme ... But according to a report for National Highways, published this week, the snails have been successfully moved to other sites.
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