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Hawaii's Snail Extinction Crisis: "We're Just Trying to Stop the Bleeding"

Source
Scientific American

Publication Date
2019-01-22

George, the last individual of a Hawaiian tree snail species known only as Achatinella apexfulva, died New Year’s Day in a laboratory on Oahu, where he had been a bit of a local celebrity.

Content
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/hawaiis-snail-extinction-crisis-were-just-trying-to-stop-the-bleeding/