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Out in the wilds of eastern Cuba, 620 miles from the capital Havana, the world\u2019s most beautiful snail lives among the trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week the polymita, <\/em>known as the \u2018<\/em>paintedsnails\u2019 of Baracoa and Mais\u00ed, hit the international headlines as a Cuba\u2013UK collaboration announced<\/a> a bid to save the endangered snail from extinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, the polymita picta<\/em> won Mollusc of the Year, too. Its prize was to have its means of reproduction, its love-dart, examined and its genome sequenced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, it\u2019s the snail\u2019s beautiful rainbow colours \u2013 bands and whorls of lime green, canary yellow, red, snow white, jet black \u2013 that is driving the six polymita <\/em>species towards extinction. Collectors sell the pretty shells to tourists and trade them online. Climate change is a threat, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, a Cuban biologist and a UK professor of evolutionary genetics are joining forces to save the endemic species. Cuban professor Bernardo Reyes-Tur is attempting to breed the tree snails in his office at the Oriente University in Santiago de Cuba whereas in the UK, Professor Angus Davison is preserving snail tissue in cryogenic freezers at his Nottingham University laboratory base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not known how the polymita<\/em> \u2013 meaning many stripes \u2013 acquired its gorgeous colours but the study hopes to shed light on how it does.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In beautiful Baracoa, a city of legends and fables, locals will tell you, though, how it came about its multi-coloured home. When the polymita<\/em> arrived in Baracoa, it had no colours and was lonely. But the snail eventually found its paintbox to colour its home: yellow from the sun to foster happiness, green from the land for hope, red from the earth for strength, white from the crest of the waves to represent purity, and black from the sky at night where the creature would take refuge to protect locals from pain. Visitors will notice that the colour blue is never found on theshells. The polymita<\/em> did not take the blue of the sky \u2013 symbolic of peace \u2013 for its shell because it had not found friendship and love when first arriving in Baracoa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 90s, the snail was a fairly common sight around Baracoa, now travellers need to head a bit further off the beaten track to find them \u2013 where they\u2019re attached to their favourite glossy leaves and tree branches. Around 200 of the 800 species of trees found in Cuba are favoured by the polymitas <\/em>as homes. One of the polymita <\/em>species only lives in remote forest in the Sagua de T\u00e1namo mountains. More accessible are the forest trails of the Unesco-protected Alejandro de Humboldt National Park, one hour\u2019s drive north of Baracoa, where a guide is needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For visitors with not much time, or without legs for hiking, there\u2019s a much easier spot to find and photograph them. At the eastern edge of the Yumur\u00ed Canyon, some 17 miles south of Baracoa, a family cares for the hermaphrodite in its garden and welcomes visitors. You\u2019ll find the Matos-Duran family house up a steep road and opposite the canyon viewpoint. The family has opened its home to visitors since 2012 and is supported by Planeterra<\/a>, a non-profit strengthening Community Based Tourism. An incredible collection of the snail shells can be seen, too, at the Natural History Museum in Holgu\u00edn in eastern Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n

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