#beach clean ups

[discovery-at-sea]

(May 12, 2023) We are raising money for a crowd funded research project investigating the cause of blueberry hermit crabs in Okinawa, Japan using trash found on the beach as “homes” instead of natural shells. These hermit crabs are endemic to the southern islands of Japan, and they act as coastal environmental engineers. They are endangered on several islands, and we want to try and understand why they are resorting to beach trash for shells. Please consider sharing this post and donating to the project. The fundraising will be active for the next 45 days (until June 26). 

You can find all project details here: https://experiment.com/projects/blueberry-hermit-crabs-with-beach-trash-homes

We suspect that areas with high rates of tourism lead to beach combers collecting natural shells leaving nothing for the hermit crabs to use. It’s possible that overfishing of turbo snails which would naturally provide shells for the crabs may also be a factor. We will survey many sites across several islands in Okinawa to try and determine a cause of this behavior. 

We will be working closely with national geographic photographer Shawn Miller (photo credits above) and several researchers in Japan. Additionally, we will complete extensive beach clean ups in the areas we study. Thank you so much for reading! 

[turontot]

beach day!!!!! aka i just really wanted to draw more gabv1el

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[sculien]

TOP 10 IMDB RATED ER EPISODES | Part 1

[medi-bee]

isat pokemon au, my liege?

my rambling in tags

[warandpeas]

We’ve All Got a Bit of Barbie in Us

Collab Comic with the wonderful people from Rewriting Extinction. Go check them out and support their cause.

[divinevault]

Could I ask for a drawing request? One for kisses with Poseidon? ((Love how pretty the blog looks, your art style is also very pretty!))

The air of the salty breeze is thick around you- long since having grown comforting. You try to hold back giggles as your lover litters your face in kisses

(Thank you for the compliments my dear!)

[julykings]

goodbye july hello august

[beachbears]

I made these like a year ago for a friend group presentation and I never had the guts to post them until now

[angel-dustblgs]

⎯ Goodbye Summer⎯

[covid-conscious-and-silly]

masked selfie time!! first pic looks a little weird because i'm trying to figure out how much anonymity i want on here hehe

yes, i made the top i'm wearing in the second pic! and both masks are from WellBefore; i really like the coverage of their KF94-style KN95s!

Image Descriptions:

Image 1: Mitchie walking outside wearing a white KN95 mask, white headphones, and black floral romper. There is a black bar drawn over their eyes, and the background is blurred.

Image 2: Mitchie lying on a blanket wearing floral sunglasses and a white KF94-style KN95 mask. They are also wearing a necklace made of tiny shells and a cream-colored crochet top.

[laurelnose]

one of my team members picked up a glass bottle butt only to discover the other side was covered in slipper snails and she was like, oh, I guess I can’t throw this away, and I was like, yeah but at least glass isn’t a big deal ecologically, it’s just habitat surface now. she said, true but I was thinking of kids walking on the beach. to which I said, this is a rocky reef, who the hell is walking around barefoot?? nobody should be barefoot here. the encrusting ecosystem hungers for blood. glass bottles or no glass bottles. foregoing shoes is just ASKING to get shanked by a barnacle and contract a mycobacteria infection. in other news, today i made an unwise choice in pants, leaned against a rock for five seconds, and shredded the inside of my calf

[acatpiestuff]

so things happened and somehow i ended up drawing submas at the beach. (thanks @divatheeva and @cecilioque for endorsing this.)

bonus: I slap emmets back

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

im still puzzling out how to draw him but... hes a good model anyway <3

[mer-se]

I’ve missed thunderstorms so muuuch

[johntorrington]

my relationship track record may not be the greatest but i can’t be single because nothing motivates me more to get the dirty laundry off my floor like having a girl come over

[ellena-asg]

for @26-cats-in-a-trenchcoat 😉😘