Threats to flax snail
Flax snail cluster under vegetation
The causes of decline for flax snails include:
- Habitat destruction - caused by humans
- Habitat modification - caused by domestic and feral grazers, including cows and horses
- Predation - by introduced animals, inlcuding rats, pigs and birds
- Collection of live animals for their shells may once have had an effect on population size.
1080 poison helps native snails
Possums cause massive problems for New Zealand's native species.
This video explains how periodic use of the biodegradable poison 1080 to kill possums has reversed the decline in snail populations
Video by Trakabat
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