People's Choice award

《In the Crevices of Survival: The Christmas Island Blue-Tailed Skink》

for the Christmas Island Blue-Tailed Skink

By Danny, age 11

I am sure that anyone looking at this artwork will immediately feel a sense of tension for the Christmas Island blue-tailed skink. The invasive Oriental wolf snake locks its gaze on the skink in a frenzied hunt, while yellow crazy ants spray formic acid, waiting for their prey. This has plunged the blue-tailed skink—already displaced by human activity and phosphate mining—into an absolute dead end with no way out. The brilliant blue tail that once darted freely across Christmas Island can now only struggle to survive in the narrow crevices surrounded by formidable enemies.

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