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Gisele Martin, Hayden Seitcher, and Hughie Watts from Tseshaht nation — blessing the garden, carrying out a small ceremony to honor the land and ocean to ensure the garden's success and to respect their traditions.

On Canada’s West Coast, clam gardening builds resilience among Indigenous youth

Robyn Huang 6 Aug 2024
A mariscadora uses a clam rake to dredge for shellfish off Cambados in Galicia. Image by Naomi Mihara for Mongabay

In northern Spain, climate change is killing shellfish — and women’s livelihoods

Naomi Mihara, Natalie Donback 29 Jun 2024

In PNG, researchers record 9 new species of predatory hermaphroditic land snails

Spoorthy Raman 24 Jan 2024
Partula snail reintroductions organized by London Zoo

‘Extinct’ snails return to Tahiti in largest wildlife reintroduction ever

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Apr 2023
Nautilus vitiensis (left) and Nautilus samoaensis.

‘They’re everywhere out there’: Three new nautilus species described

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Feb 2023
Budha looking for snails in a cave.

‘A mollusk is as important as a tiger’: Q&A with Prem Bahadur Budha

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Oct 2022

As seizures of poached giant clams rise, links to ivory trade surface

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Oct 2021

As minister and activists trade barbs, Madagascar’s forests burn

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Dec 2020

New snail subspecies with ‘upside down shell’ found in last green frontier east of Manila

Mongabay.com 1 Dec 2020

The ‘blue acceleration’: Study shows humans’ surging incursions into the sea

Grace Dungey 13 Feb 2020

Protecting the strange sea pangolin and other animals: Q&A with deep sea biologist Chong Chen

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Aug 2019

Thousands of endangered snails raised in captivity returned to natural habitat in Bermuda

Mongabay.com 26 Jun 2019

More than 40 percent of Madagascar’s freshwater life sliding toward extinction, IUCN finds

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2018

Queen conch dying out in the Bahamas despite marine parks

Jim Tan 16 Feb 2018

Did mining company drive 3 species to extinction?

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jun 2016

New species named after the struggle for same-sex marriage

Jeremy Hance 13 Oct 2014

Thought wiped out by climate change, ‘extinct’ snail rediscovered in Seychelles

Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Sep 2014

Scientists name new endangered species after the company that will decide its fate

Tanya Dimitrova 24 Aug 2014

Newly discovered snails at risk of extinction

Andrew Mann 3 Jun 2014

Wonderful Creatures: meet the animal that has evolved a cushy, worry-free life inside an octopus

Ross Piper 30 Jan 2014

Ocean acidification pushing young oysters into ‘death race’

Jeremy Hance 11 Jun 2013

New Malaysian snail named after late conservation mentor

Jeremy Hance 30 Jul 2012

800 nearly-extinct giant snails freeze to death in conservation center

Jeremy Hance 14 Nov 2011

Photos: bizarre shell of new snail baffles researchers

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2011

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