Post by surroundx on Sept 18, 2016 7:44:18 GMT
"Now, conservationists allege that another Malaysian cement company, YTL Cement, may have caused the extinction of at least three species of rare snails due to limestone quarrying. YTL Cement is part of YTL Corporation that owns foreign companies like Wessex Water in the United Kingdom.
The snail species — the elephant trunk snail (Hypselostoma elephas), Tenggek braided snail (Plectostoma tenggekensis) and towered braided snail (Plectostoma turriforme) — are found only in Gunung Tenggek and Gunung Sagu, two limestone hills in southern Malaysia. All three species are critically endangered. Quarrying of these two hills also threatens the herb Paraboea bakeri found only in these hills."
Source: news.mongabay.com/2016/06/cement-company-may-have-caused-global-extinction-of-3-snail-species-in-malaysia/
The snail species — the elephant trunk snail (Hypselostoma elephas), Tenggek braided snail (Plectostoma tenggekensis) and towered braided snail (Plectostoma turriforme) — are found only in Gunung Tenggek and Gunung Sagu, two limestone hills in southern Malaysia. All three species are critically endangered. Quarrying of these two hills also threatens the herb Paraboea bakeri found only in these hills."
Source: news.mongabay.com/2016/06/cement-company-may-have-caused-global-extinction-of-3-snail-species-in-malaysia/