UOI extinction homework

The Hawaiian snail-

On New Year’s Day, a little land snail named George died in his terrarium at
the University of Hawaii. He was 14 years old—a robust age for his species,
Achatinella apexfulva. But George’s passing nevertheless came as a blow to
the researchers who have nurtured him. George was, after all, likely the last
snail of his kind. Scientists greeted George’s death “without surprise, but
with sadness,” Michael Hadfield, founder of a captive breeding program for
Hawaii’s faltering snail populations, tells the CBC’s Carol Off. George’s death,
Hadfield adds, marks “the end of another species. And another is an
important word there because we've been watching these tree snails vanish
from the forest for a long, long time now. Hawaii was once crawling with land
snails—more than 750 species, in fact. According to the New York Times’
Julia Jacobs, 19th-century documents say the critters hung off plants like
bunches of grapes. Achatinella apexfulva was the first species to be
described in by Western explorers when, in 1787, the British captain George
Dixon was given a lei adorned with an Achatinella apexfulva shell.

The reasons why have they become endangered?

There was only one found Hawaiian snail found and that was the one who I
mentioned in the introduction his name was George he died on new years
day 2019 he died because of age, he was 14 human years old.

Measures were taken by the government to preserve them and prevent their
extinction?
George, a Hawaiian tree snail—and the last known member of the species
Achatinella apexfulva—died on New Year’s Day. He was 14, which is quite old
for a snail of his kind. George was born in a captive breeding facility at the
University of Hawaii at Mānoa in the early 2000s, and soon after, the rest of
his kin died. That’s when he got his name—after Lonesome George, the Pinta
Island tortoise who was also the last of his kind.

-Avihi Gupta