As well as going to prison for 30 months, Schichtel was also sentenced to a three-year supervised release programme that he will serve after leaving jail.
The zoo said the International Partula Conservation Programme planned to release the snails into reserves on the islands later this year.
Hemp told BBC Sport's The Back Page programme that his release came as no surprise, but that he is not yet ready to retire from first-class cricket.
Earlier this week, various French clubs refused to release players for the African qualifying programme because they said the matches were not part of the international calendar drawn up by Fifa.
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How high that bar is now set for the 2012 Summer Games in London will not be clear until the end of 2010, when the United Nations Environmental Programme is due to release a full assessment of the Vancouver games.
One sensible measure might be to require every sex offender serving a jail sentence to attend a treatment programme as a condition of release.
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Unlike bigger festivals, which are tied to film companies' rules and release dates, the Southside Film Festival's programme plays on local strengths.
In a separate development in the UK, the Department for Business has a "midata" programme, which encourages various banks and energy companies to release data about a customer's consumption if it is requested.
Jason Carter, head of live music and events at BBC Radio 1 told BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan programme that due to the technical issues the decision was taken to postpone the release.
The release of these reports, offered as The Open News Archive, means the BBC has now doubled the number of programme extracts it originally made available through an initial trial with Radio 1 Interactive.
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