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Scaly-foot Snail
July 26 , 2019
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- A rare snail species called ‘Scaly-Foot Snail’ has become the 1st species to be officially declared “Threatened” due to deep-sea mining.
- It is found at only three spots on Indian Ocean floor near Madagascar.
- It was added by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to its updated Red List of Endangered Species on 18 July 2019.
- At present there is a freeze on all ocean-floor mining activities globally.
- UN-agency International Seabed Authority (ISA) is currently formulating guidelines on how to conduct ocean-floor mining.
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