Snail extinction prevention program

[1][3][6][7][8][9][10][2] One of the ways the SEPP tries to save those rare snails is 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[Note 2] and other introduced predators, such as the Jackson's chameleon, the land flatworm Platydemus manokwari, and black rats.

[1] Behind the steel fence, there are electric wires to prevent any wolfsnails that do get in from swallowing the native snails whole.

[1][3] The SEPP also keeps snails in a laboratory in, Kawainui Marsh, Oahu, Hawaii.

[1][10][11][12][Note 3] In 2015, the SEPP team found a tree full of Achatinella pupukanioe,[External link 1] a species thought to be extinct since the 1980s.

The SEPP decided to leave them alone, but later when they went to collect the snails for the lab they were gone, possibly swallowed whole by rosy wolfsnails.

Achatinella fuscobasis
Partulina mighelsiana , photograph by David Sischo founder and current director of the SEPP
The Rosy Wolfsnail ( Euglandina rosea ), one of the main causes of Hawaiian snail extinction
Platydemus manokwari , a predatory flatworm that poses a threat to Hawaiian snails
The Jackson's Chameleon, one of the invasive species that eat Hawaiian tree snails
The black rat, one of the invasive species that eat native snails.