Chapter 12
The 'Flagship Species' Protecting Marine Ecology!

【Congratulations! Host's attention has successfully broken through 100,000! You have earned a 【B-Tier Draw Chance】! Would you like to use the draw?】

【Congratulations! You have successfully drawn the reward 【Yacht Attribute Points *3】!】

Yang Xu checked the details about the yacht attribute reward.

Previously, Yang Xu had activated the ‘Yacht Attribute Point Addition’ module.

But the module was initialized without any attribute points.

These 3 points of reward attributes.

Can be customized according to Yang Xu's personal preferences.

Strengthening the performance and functionality of the ‘Cloud Sail’ in various aspects.

For Yang Xu, who needs to circumnavigate the globe and face various extreme sea conditions.

Strengthening the yacht is a prerequisite for ensuring smooth sailing.

This reward is still very practical.

At the same time!

Under the leadership of Uncle Li Wanghai.

Yang Xu and Yi Ying successfully reached the ‘Sea Turtle Conservation Station’ located on the North Island of the Seven Connected Islands.

The system's rewards came one after another!

It was truly one wave after another~

【Congratulations, Host has reached the first check-in location: 【Seven Connected Islands ‘Sea Turtle Conservation Station’】! Would you like to check-in?】

【Check-in successful! Congratulations, Host has earned the reward: 【Radar Template】! Host’s current attention is 100,000, you have earned an extra check-in reward of 100,000 yuan!】

Two waves of rewards were claimed by Yang Xu one after another.

He had just boarded the North Island of the Seven Connected Islands and already had a full harvest.

And this new 【Radar Template】 rewarded by the system.

After Yang Xu checked it, it was also very useful!

“【Radar Template】: After being strengthened with enough attribute points, it can provide the host and the yacht with enhanced exploration capabilities, detecting obstacles, rare creatures, etc., within a certain range. The current applicable range is a radius of 1 kilometer/0.53 nautical miles. (Can be upgraded and strengthened later.)”

The abilities of these successive rewards.

Were like adding wings to a tiger for Yang Xu.

Coupled with the pleasant scenery on the North Island of the Seven Connected Islands.

The air quality was even better.

Naturally, his mood was good.

Yang Xu smiled at the audience in the live stream:

“We have now reached the ‘Sea Turtle Conservation Station’ on the North Island.”

The houses here.

Were all low-lying sheds built up.

The only building stood out.

【Are those low-lying sheds protection points set up for sea turtles? The staff should be living in the building, right?】

【Until now, I haven't seen a single sea turtle. Have they all gone into hiding?】

【Speaking of which, have sea turtles really been hunted to the point where they need protection? I haven't learned about this before~】

Unexpectedly……

The viewers in the live stream were wrong again!

Uncle Li led Yang Xu and the others.

Straight towards the area of the low-lying sheds.

Obviously, that was where they lived.

“That building is for injured sea turtles. They will be released back into the ocean after they recover. Recently, the sea turtles have been very healthy and there are no patients. There's nothing much to see inside the building.” Uncle Li laughed heartily.

Yi Ying said in disbelief:

“So, this only building is for the sea turtles to ‘live’ in? They are treated too well!”

In reality.

Uncle Li and his colleagues at the ‘Sea Turtle Conservation Station’.

Also need to take care of the protection of the surrounding coral reefs.

As well as the island's greening efforts.

Only in this way can they ensure that more and more sea turtles return to the North Island to lay their eggs.

Uncle Li smiled: “A sea turtle lays 5 clutches of eggs a year, and each clutch is only 12 days apart.”

“When a female turtle lays her eggs, the first clutch will be laid in a certain location, and as long as the baby turtles hatch normally, the second clutch will also be laid in the same location.”

Uncle Li Wanghai added:

“So, the island's environment must be taken care of.”

During Yang Xu and Uncle Li's casual chat.

The viewers also learned a lot about the survival situation of sea turtles.

Due to the lack of attention paid to the ecological balance by humans in the early days.

Excessive fishing.

As well as marine pollution and other factors.

The survival of sea turtles is severely threatened.

Yang Xu said to the audience in the live stream:

“According to statistics, the remaining number of adult sea turtles in the entire South China Sea of our country is less than 2,000, which is a very scarce number.”

【Sea turtles are very powerful. They are a type of sea reptile that lived during the same era as dinosaurs. They are known as the ‘living fossils of the ocean’! They are very powerful.】

【So, their species have been able to survive until today, which is considered a miracle of life!】

【Even so, they were almost wiped out by humans, and they have reached the point where they need to be protected and reproduced…】

In short……

The extinction events of the ancient geological eras could not exterminate the sea reptiles, sea turtles.

They were almost exterminated by humans…

Yi Ying continued:

“Sea turtles are not only ‘living fossils of the ocean’, but also the ‘flagship species’ of the surrounding waters of the South China Sea!”

These words of hers.

Left the viewers puzzled…

Living fossils, everyone understood the meaning.

The saying "a thousand-year-old tortoise and a ten-thousand-year-old turtle", not only refers to the long lifespan of an individual.

The time period during which the entire species has survived is far longer than humans, naturally they have the biological research value of ‘living fossils’.

However……

What the viewers were particularly curious about was.

What exactly does this ‘flagship species’ mean?

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