Archived News Items and Press Releases
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- A new all white worm-eating slug has been discovered in back gardens in south Wales.
Gardeners in south Wales should not be surprised if they find an all-white, worm-munching slimy creature in their flowerbeds this summer.
Date posted: 11 Jul 2008
- Man-made chemicals pollute deep-sea squids
A new study has turned up alarming evidence of how man-made contaminants are being found in deep-sea squids and octopods, food for deep-diving whales. The report has found chemical contaminants in nine species of cephalopods, a class of organisms that includes octopods, squids, cuttlefishes and nautiluses.
Date posted: 16 Jun 2008
- Colossal squid's big eye revealed.
The huge eye of the world's largest squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) has been revealed by scientists dissecting a rare, intact half-tonne specimen in New Zealand.
Date posted: 13 May 2008
- Buglife protesters stamp on Royal Mail’s green credentials
As Royal Mail flaunted its green credentials with a new set of stamps featuring endangered insects yesterday, a conservation charity offered up a similar set highlighting the plight of insects that it says are threatened by one of the postal service’s developments.
Date posted: 17 Apr 2008
- The Forest School will host the British Naturalists' Association Annual Conference 2008 again this year in Epping Forest, Snaresbrook on 10th May 2008.
TV Naturalist Presenter and wildlife cameraman, Simon King, will be this year’s recipient of the BNA’s prestigious Peter Scott Memorial Award
Date posted: 28 Mar 2008
- Roman Snails (Helix pomatia) have, at last, been added to Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981.
From 6th April 2008 wild caught Roman Snails Helix pomatia will be protected from intentional taking, injury or killing, as well as possession and sale.
Date posted: 15 Mar 2008
- Buglife wildlife case update
The first legal test of recent wildlife protection laws ended in bitter disappointment on Friday, 22nd February.
Date posted: 25 Feb 2008
- Bugs have their day in court
This coming Friday 22 February, Buglife will be going to the High Court in London to try to stop the destruction of West Thurrock Marshes.
Date posted: 21 Feb 2008
- BT Young Scientist of the Year 2008
The runner-up individual project went to Henry Glass (16), a transition-year student from Clongowes Wood College, Co Kildare, with a project entitled “The detection and locating of food by the slug Limax pseudoflavus”.
Date posted: 27 Jan 2008
- Radio 4 programme – 'Why do the British love wildlife?'
Radio 4, 11.00 am. on January 8th. 2008. Francesco Da Mosto leaves his native Italy to explore the apparent special relationship between the British and the natural world. From buzzards to hedgehogs or dormice to snails, we seem to love them all, but why? Francesco discovers that the answer seems to lie in the 19th century.
Includes parts of an interview with Professor Robert Cameron, speaking for the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Date posted: 16 Dec 2007
- World Congress of Malacology at Antwerp, 2007 – Poster prize awarded.
The prize sponsored by the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, for the best student poster on a conservation / biodiversity theme was awarded to Joaquim Reis, a PhD student at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, for his poster (presented jointly with Rafael Araujo from Spain).
Date posted: 04 Nov 2007
- Ming the clam is 'oldest animal'
A clam dredged up off the coast of Iceland is thought to have been the longest-lived animal discovered.
Date posted: 28 Oct 2007
- Rare shellfish bartered for drugs
Triads are fuelling a trade that has seen a surge in violence in the already crime-riddled Cape, writes Sam Kiley in The Observer on 23 September 2007
Date posted: 23 Sep 2007
- Snails helping scientists slither back in time
Researchers from The University of Nottingham want the public to get involved in a project which could tell us how our ancestors came to Britain and Ireland. Experts from the School of Biology need people living in Ireland and Scotland to get involved in collecting snails.
Date posted: 11 Aug 2007
- Announcement – Award Offered
Date posted: 16 May 2007
- Wanted – Deroceras reticulatum - the ‘Field’ or ‘Milky’ slug
Date posted: 25 Apr 2007
- Guernsey - Rare sea slug discovered in bay
Date posted: 05 Mar 2007
- New Zealand fishermen land colossal squid
Date posted: 22 Feb 2007
- World Congress of Malacology Antwerp, Belgium, 15-20 July 2007
Date posted: 10 Jan 2007
- Research Grants awarded in 2006
Date posted: 29 Dec 2006
- Request for Deroceras reticulatum - the "Field (or Milky) Slug".
Date posted: 30 Sep 2006
- Limax maximus and Limax cinereoniger
Date posted: 26 Sep 2006
- Request for membership exchange. (Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany)
Date posted: 16 Sep 2006
- British and Irish snails and slugs in step with Continental cousins.
There has been an urgent need for some time to modernise the list in use in Britain and Ireland and which was last reviewed in the Journal of Conchology in 1976. The new list takes account of the various changes in non-marine molluscan nomenclature which have appeared in subsequent literature, especially since the development of the continental list through the EU funded Fauna Europaea project.
Date posted: 25 Jul 2006
- List of species found during Thanet Field Meeting 25-26 June 2005
Date posted: 12 Dec 2005
- Recent records of Malacolimax tenellus
Date posted: 03 Dec 2005
- Guernsey scallop fisherman catches a Triton
Date posted: 25 May 2005
- Research grants awarded 2005
Date posted: 12 Mar 2005
- UK BAP Priority Species Review
Date posted: 03 Jan 2005
- The marine Opisthobranch, Janolus cristatus, recorded in Guernsey by Richard Lord
Date posted: 25 Sep 2004
- New species of fossil discovered
Date posted: 12 Mar 2004
