Rare Snails are being Driven Extinct at Malaysian Limestone Quarries

Rare Snails are being Driven Extinct at Malaysian Limestone Quarries

Snails rarely make the headlines. Not even when they are being driven extinct en masse. Yet that’s what’s happening to several rare species of snail in Pahang. The culprit: cement companies. By blasting away at limestone quarries where these snails live, these companies have decimated the ranks of several species…