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GASCONADE RIVER, Mo. – Roughly a year after a zoo-raised Ozark hellbender successfully fathered a clutch of eggs in the wild, an eastern hellbender has followed suit.
A groundbreaking program to re-populate Missouri streams with hellbender salamanders is showing signs of success.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) has announced population recovery efforts of the endangered Ozark hellbender are successful. A zoo-raised hellbender has reproduced within the Current River. Hellbenders are large aquatic salamanders. Missouri is the only state that contains both subspecies of North American hellbenders: the Ozark hellbender and the eastern […]
The Ozark hellbender was added to the federal endangered species list in October 2011.
The World Association of Zoos ad Aquariums (WAZA) has announced the winners of awards at its 77th WAZA Annual Conference.