In an extremely vast forest in Mexico, the world's largest woodpecker flies around searching for food from tree to tree. The bird measures about five centimeters tall, the males have a red-sided crest and have black feathers, and the female is all black, towards the bottom, both have white plumage towards the tail, and an elongated beak. The chicken is an imperial woodpecker, it feeds on fruits, nuts, carpenter ants and beetle larvae. This feathered friend lives peacefully in this forest. In the future, a group of men from a nearby lumber company arrive in this wooded area and begin harvesting lumber. Next, the boys begin cutting down the trees where this woodpecker resides. Then the men realized that the woodpecker is a nuisance, so they decide to poison it, so the woodpecker dies. Imagine a world without this bird, but we don't have to because this is actually reality. Today the Imperial Woodpecker is extinct precisely because of our actions as human beings. This happens every day in the world we live in: an immeasurable amount of animals are becoming extinct or in danger of extinction due to the activities of civilization. Why should we care about habitat destruction and animal extinction? Thomas Jefferson once stated, “For if one link in the chain of nature might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things pass away piece by piece” (“Problem”). Countless species of animals prey on smaller creatures, for example frogs eat mosquitoes, so if frogs became extinct we will have many more mosquitoes carrying a huge amount of additional diseases such as West Nile virus. Many insects facilitate flower pollination...... center of paper ......ns-natural-gas-drilling.html>.Brown, Ellie and Micheal F. Jacobson. “Cruel Oil: How Palm Oil Harms Health, Rainforest and Wildlife.” Center for Science in the Public Interest. Web. 17 November 2011. .“Interesting facts about rainforests." Web. 29 November 2011. "The effects of habitat destruction - Environment 911." Environment 911 - Saving the environment through sustainable living. Web. 17 November 2011. . "10 Easy Things You Can Do at Home to Protect Endangered Species Web. November 15, 2011. “Finding solutions to habitat loss in flight. 2011. .