Land Snail
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About Land Snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. Land snail is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells.
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Little Hadham bypass: road project sees 500 snails moved
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More Than 500 snails were relocated as part of a £40m Bypass project.
The mussels have been moved out of the country at Little Hadham, in Hertfordshire, where the A120 Bypass is constructed.
3. 9km road running to the North of The Village of Bishop's Stortford on the tile-stove the roundabout.
Hertfordshire County Council, moved the protected snails of The Path of the redirection to a new home "in the vicinity".
A Council spokesman said: "they are a protected species, so we need to make sure that we move them to a suitable new habitat. "
The slimy creatures are Roman snails, Helix pomatia, the Snail is a common species of edible land.
The Snails were collected by handIt is a protected species in England under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, but not in the rest of the UK.
The Snails have been collected by ecologists and transferred to a specially planted wild flower meadow next to the ring road, The Council said.
The Bypass plan, which is scheduled to be completed by 2020/21, will also flood alleviation for The Village of Little Hadham.
The Snails were moved into a wild flower meadowenvironment, little hadham, bishop' s stortford, snails, conservation
Source of news: bbc.com
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