15-Year Conservation Effort Saves World's Heaviest Insect Species
Conservation teams led by Auckland Zoo and Butterfly Creek launched a captive breeding programme in 2010.
The population of wetapunga, the world's heaviest insect, has been brought back from the edge of extinction, with conservationists successfully releasing around 11,000 of the creatures into safe wild habitats after a 15-year captive breeding effort i... [2322 chars]
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