More than 500 snails were flourishing a month ago, but now they're dead; maybe your iPod charger is to blame

‘Poster child’ of Banff’s endangered species on brink

A month ago, more than 500 of the barely corn kernel-sized creatures flourished in the Kidney hot spring, located in the woods across the road from the Rimrock hotel. But this week the spring completely dried up, and hundreds of tiny snail cadavers now sit motionless in the cold, dry mountain air.
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Bow Valley Naturalists president Mike McIvor said if man-made climate change is killing the snails, humans should intervene to help the snails.

“It’s all very well to to say we’re letting nature take its course. But global warming is not exactly letting nature take it’s course,” McIvor said.