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Marwell Zoo opens Native Species Zone with crayfish breeding centre (www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk)

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A new breeding centre helping protect and celebrate the UK’s most threatened wildlife has opened at a Hampshire zoo.

On Tuesday, March 25, Marwell Zoo opened a new Native Species Zone, which features Hampshire’s first white-clawed crayfish conservation breeding centre.

Once abundant in Hampshire’s chalk streams, white-clawed crayfish have suffered a dramatic decline in the past 40 years primarily due to competition and predation from the signal crayfish, which also carries a deadly crayfish plague.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Not seagulls then? I’m pretty sure I’ve threatened them much more often than crayfish. In fact I’m reasonably certain I’ve tried to follow up on those threats a few times. Crayfish haven’t bothered me that I can remember