2021 Science Without Borders® Challenge Finalists: 15-19 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 older group of applicants, students 15-19 years old:
"Within the Mangrove" by Elizabeth Shepard, Age 16, Florida, United States of America
Artist's Statement: This work shows just some of the creatures that live in, on, and below the mangroves branches. The heron and other birds stand vigilant of the thriving ecosystem while frogs, lizards, and snails alike hide among the branches. Beneath the water, animals as large as a lemon shark and a small baby fish swim among the entwined branches covered in all manners of coral and barnacles. Baby mangrove trees have begun to sprout up above the water, after having fallen and embedded themselves in the mud. The mangrove provides a source of shelter for many creatures, creating an abundance of diversity among its inhabitants. Without it, the species would suffer as the mangrove provides food for animals such as the mangrove snake, a nursery for fish, and a place to latch onto for the micro organisms and barnacles.
