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Hudson Valley artist Annabelle Popa’s mural seeks to draw attention to the threat of over-development on natural habitats in New York. She has painted amphibious and aquatic animals: Leopard Frog, American Eel, Five Lined Skink, Tiger salamander, Red Spotted Newt; and plants: Cattails, Water Lily, mushrooms (‘destroying angel’), and the fungi on the tree up top (Laetiporus cincinnatus).