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"When Hurricane Douglas came barreling toward Oahu in 2020, David Sischo
quickly packed up and drove to higher ground. But he wasn’t evacuating his
family. He was evacuating snails.
Sischo works with some of the rarest endangered species on the planet, kāhuli —
Hawaii’s native tree snails. The colorful, jewel-like snails were once so
abundant, it’s said they were like Christmas ornaments covering the trees.
Almost all of the 750 different species were found only in Hawaii.
Today, more than half of those species are gone, the extinctions happening in
the span of a human lifetime. Sischo and his team with Hawaii’s Department of
Land and Natural Resources have the heavy task of saving what’s left."
Via Frederick Wilson II.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
