By The Environment TV.

Gabriella Velardi-Ward, founder and coordinator of the Staten Island Coalition for Wetlands and Forests (SICWF), let’s us in on the secret: The Graniteville Wetlands are being destroyed and this greatly effects the people living there RIGHT NOW.

Homes have been damaged and destroyed and there are rumors that some people have actually died during the recent hurricane, IDA, yet the local media has not covered this.

She, and members of her group who live there alongside her, have started interviewing and documenting what has happened and are trying to get the word out there with little success. But they are trying and continue to assist their neighbors as they have for the past 4 years or more.