Video Bioaccumulation
"Bioaccumulation"
A young gull feeds on a mussel and exposes itself to the food chain's toxins.
There is only one thing wrong with seafood in NY. It comes from the bottom of the ocean or harbor - where everything from old dioxins, PCB's, Nickel, chrome, mercury (leftovers from the industrial era of NY) can still be found. These toxins are the cancer of nature in the NY-NJ area. They work their way up through the food chain. They bio-accumulate; in other words their concentrations increase in larger predators. This young gull will expose itself to mild levels of toxicity; some animals can even suffer liver and brain lesions after a life's exposure to PCB's. Top of the food web predators, like Bald Eagles nesting on the Hudson, further upstate, are the most at risk.
About Our Art Prints
Signed art prints donated by three extraordinary artists are available for purchase in our art prints store, to support the programs we are engaged in. The prints include, among others, "Last Turn Your Turn" created by Robert Rauschenberg for the Earth Summit, Christo sketches of "The Gates,” a public art event by Christo and his wife Jeanne Claude that drew millions to Central Park, and "Manifest Destiny," by Alexis Rockman, showing New York City underwater in the future as a result of climate change.