People's Choice award

Blue-tailed Skink on the brink

for the Christmas Island Blue-tailed Skink

Critically Endangered

By Ishika, age 10

I drew a blue tailed skink because this animal is unique and I wanted to try something harder to paint. In my artwork, I have shown my animal which is an endangered animal. I added a darker background showing that the blue tailed skink is dying. It has very short arms and legs and is like a snake because its actions are similar. I felt sorry for the blue tailed skink because no animal should be endangered. We can help this animal by letting the skink live how it wants to live.

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