Longleat Joins Rescue Bid For One Of World's Rarest Spiders

2,001 views · Published 22 January 2018 · 2:10 · Indexed 21 September 2026

Channel: Longleat · 2018 · Pets & Animals

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Longleat has joined an international rescue programme to try and save a Critically Endangered species of wolf spider.

It’s thought that only around 4,000 Desertas wolf spiders survive in the wild within a small valley on the uninhabited Desertas Grande island, part of an archipelago off the south east coast of Madeira.

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