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Week 6, More Progress

A week already passed and I am still working very hard on this. I am currently progressing with some sketches because on my timeline, I supposed to finish this rough sketches before mid exam D:

I am trying my best to sketch all the animals first, but also, during the process, I also do some researches to enhance the drawing to be as close as the real animals. Although, I am not particularly using realism styles, but I also would like to keep my style. with tons of environment designs and keep the coloring simple. I have finished some illustrations, The Sulawesi Forest Turtle, Jalak Bali, and Tokhtor Sumatera. Although not really complete yet, because I still need to illustrate their appearance, feature, and other stuff. But atleast, I have something already, so I won’t get lost. This week, I supposed to go to Taxidermy museums for research, however, because this weekend I have Hindu Feast day, the Hindu New Year, so I need to pray in the temple. Therefore, I am moving my schedule to next week, before the mid week.

Here are some of the progress I did this week.

 

Moreover, I already compiled one species data, I am planning to create all the data like this and will be combined with the images later on. I am still working on the layout for my encyclopedia, I am still debating whether to keep it modern or go back with some old explorian style, which I found also interesting because my project might looks more interesting. But then again, I need to make some mock up to see the difference first. I will try to make it before next week.

Here is one of the Data I already collected.

Sulawesi Forest Turtle

Scientific Name:

Leucocephalon yuwonoi

Other Names and/or Listed subspecies:

Geoemyda yuwonoi, Heosemys yuwonoi

Group:

Reptiles

Status/Date Listed as Endangered:

CR-IUCN: 2000

Area(s) Where Listed as Endangered:

Indonesia

Profiles and photos are posted according to availability.

 

Profile

The Sulawesi forest turtle (Leucocephalon yuwonoi) is a critically endangered species of turtle in the Geoemydidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Leucocephalon. It is endemic to Sulawesi in Indonesia.

 

Sulawesi Forest Turtle known in Indonesia as Kura Kura Paruh Betet because its mouth look alike to cockatoo beak. The scientific name for this turtle is Leucocephalon yuwonoi (McCord, Iverson & Boeadi, 1995) which is a synonym to Geoemyda yuwonoi (McCord, Iverson & Boeadi, 1995) and Heosemys yuwonoi (McCord, Iverson and Boeadi, 1995). Originally, The Sulawesi Forest Turtle categorized as Hoesemys Genus which later changed into Leucocephalon Genus in 2000. The Yuwonoi word refers to Frank Yuwono whom first discovered this species throughout the market in Gorontalo, which then he found that this species was known to be extinct. With this discovery, Yuwono able to find some specimens and then he starts his research to protect this species.

 

 

Characteristic

Sulawesi Forest Turtle or known as Kura Kura Paruh Betet is an endemic reptile found only in Sulawesi, Indonesia. This creature is one of the seven most endangered reptile species in Indonesia, and it on the list in The World’s 25 Most Endangered Tortoise and Freshwater Turtles-2011 that published by Turtle Conservation Coalition.

 

This turtle length starts from 28cm-31cm for male and 20-25 cm for female. This species is endemic to Sulawesi Island and only can be found in the North Sulawesi only. Not so many data can be found for this species, scientists are trying their best to collect data for this species, but because of its habitat is hard to reach, the only data that we able to discover is that this species spend most of their time in the forest and only go to the water during night for resting and breeding.

 

Population and Conservation

In 1990, the population of Kura Kura Hutan Sulawesi was abundant, but today, the species population has been decreased drastically and less than 250 specimens only in the wildlife. The reason of this huge decreasing is because of the illegal hunting and black market. People consumed and sell this turtle as pet. In 1990, 2000-3000 turtles were sold illegally to China as food. Moreover, they also illegally sold them to Europe and America as pet. However, the other reasons are because of the illegal logging and deforestation. Deforestation destroyed their habitats and without forest, this turtle cannot breed. The breeding rate for Sulawesi Forest Turtle is lower than the other turtle.

 

With this huge loss, the IUCN Red List has been categorized as Critically Endangered. The Turtle Conservation Coalition also has declared that this species now on the list of The World ‘s Most Endangered Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles in 2011. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) also added this species o CITES Apendix II. With this, the trading or selling of Sulawesi Forest Turtle won’t allowed and can be jailed. HOWEVER, sadly, in Indonesia, Kura Kura Hutan Sulawesi is still not categorized as Endangered Species.