2021 Science Without Borders® Challenge Finalists: 11-14 year old students
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is pleased to announce the finalists in our 2021 Science Without Borders® Challenge! This international student art contest engages students in important ocean issues through art. For this year’s competition, students were asked to illustrate one or more of the benefits mangroves provide to people, other organisms, or the environment.
Entries to the Science Without Borders® Challenge are judged in two categories based on age. Here are the finalists selected from the younger group of applicants, students 11-14 years old:
"Mangrove Forest, the Friend" by Chyi Jaan Li, Age 14, Brazil
Artist's Statement: The mangrove forests are important to the environment because they are one of the biggest source of seafood and they reduce the strength of waves, besides being the ideal place to animal reproduction, but, unfortunately, depreciated by human beings. This work demonstrates how the human actions destroyed one of the main natural habitat of crabs, what makes them leave and search for a new home, taking with them their best friend: the mangrove.
