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🤔I have drawn some turtles in August, 2020. I think I finally want to post my drawings. I realized that the scientific names should be in italics, but I won't change the drawings. 😂😂😂

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鼋 Cantor's giant softshell turtle/ Asian giant softshell turtle (Pelochelys cantorii). The species is classified as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The brown ones are babies.

斑鳖 Swinhoe's softshell turtle/ Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei). The species is classified as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. At the moment, there are four living individuals known.

It wasn't easy for me to find reference photos of the species or draw the unique patterns. 🤔

玳瑁 hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata). The species is classified as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 😩 I made some mistakes when I drew the hawksbill sea turtle, and later I redrew the scutes after realizing the mistakes. I also changed the patterns on the hawksbill's beak.

Hmm, I think I might not be allowed to share the illustrations that I drew for the book about animal rescue with people on social media platforms (🤔at least not yet? I am not very sure about it… ). Those drawings were drawn in October, 2020, and in November, 2020, and they actually look pretty similar to these ones. I have some other drawings as well as some stories to post anyway. 😂😂😂 I am working on some projects and it's tiring. I write and draw my stories, so it can be exhausting in some ways. I plan to draw some more species and I have already illustrated a few pictures. It's likely that I will share some of my new art with you guys. 🤔🤔🤔

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于2021年2月4号发布。

One of the major threats to sea turtles is entanglement in fishing gear and other marine debris. 

Each year, threatened green sea turtles make their way to breeding grounds in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Although these islands are largely uninhabited and are protected by Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, ocean currents carry enormous quantities of trash here from around the world. More than 50 tons of debris enters monument waters each year! Here, fishing nets and other debris can entangle breeding adults and young hatchlings. 

You can help protect these and other sea turtles by reducing the amount of plastic you use and participating in beach and watershed cleanups. What actions will you take to protect 🐢? 

(Photo: Andy Collins/NOAA) 

[Image description: A green sea turtle rests on a beach. In the foreground is a pile of derelict fishing nets.]

The sex of a sea turtle hatching is determined by temperature. Nests incubated at cooler temperatures produce more males, while nests incubated at warmer temperatures produce more females.

This could be a problem with climate change. As global temperatures rise, nests will be incubated at higher temperatures, producing fewer males. As this study found, climate change could lead to turtle nests with few to no males, skewing sex ratios and endangering the persistence of sea turtle populations. As the authors note:

“[O]nce incubation temperatures are 35°C, there are almost no more males produced (1 per 50 000 eggs laid)... As turtles return to the rough neighbourhood of their natal breeding grounds, it seems likely that for populations already producing more than 80% females, there will be a real extinction risk if they continue to nest at the same time of year and conditions warm by a few degrees.” 

But the bigger issue may be the increasing number of unviable eggs with rising temperatures. As the authors claim:

“[T]he primary concern in scenarios of climate change and rising incubation temperatures [is]... the high hatchling mortality in excessively warm nests...While climate warming still poses a threat to sea turtles, it is not the skewed sex ratios per se that will threaten population survival but rather higher mortality within clutches.”

A study in the journal Science Advances looked at population trends of sea turtles across 299 populations for which there was publicly available data. The image shows regions where populations of sea turtles are increasing (green) and decreasing (red). Of the regional populations, there is an upward trend in 12 and a downward trend in 5, suggesting a possible rebound of sea turtle populations, albeit challenges remain.

CC = C. caretta (loggerhead turtle) CM = C. mydas (green turtle) DC = D. coriacea (leatherback sea turtle) EI = E. imbricata (hawksbill turtle) LK = L. kempii (Kemp’s ridley) LO = L. olivacea (olive ridley) ND = N. depressus (flatback turtle)

Sea turtle at Hawaii 🐢

Credit: Wade Morales

A Summer turtle!