Snail Farming Could Save Endangered Gorillas

 

The sole Cross River gorilla in captivity in Cameroon, Nyango (Photo: Julie Langford on Wikipedia)

How can the lowly snail save the world's most endangered gorilla species? For the impoverished locals that inhabit the same region as the critically threatened Cross River gorilla, farming snails could provide an alternative - a steadier and more attractive - source of income than gorilla poaching. That's what the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is betting on in their new and experimental initiative to rehabilitate and sponsor former poachers in the new vocation of snail farming.

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