In an extremely vast forest in Mexico, the world's largest woodpecker flies around searching for food from tree to tree. The bird is about two inches tall, the males have a red-sided crest and black feathers, and the female is entirely black, towards the bottom, they both have white plumage towards the tail and an elongated beak. The fowl is an imperial woodpecker, it feeds on fruits, nuts, carpenter ants and beetle larvae. This feathered friend exists peacefully in this forest. Later, a band of men from a nearby logging company arrive in this wooded area and begin harvesting wood. Then the guys start 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 that the woodpecker perishes. Imagine a world without this bird, but we don't have to because that's actually reality. Today, the Imperial Woodpecker is extinct because of our actions as human beings. This happens every day in the world we live in: immeasurable numbers of animals are disappearing or facing extinction due to the activities of civilization. Why should we care about habitat destruction and animal extinction? Thomas Jefferson once said, “For if one link in the chain of nature can be lost, another might be lost, until the whole thing gradually disappears” (“Problem”). Countless species of animals hunt smaller creatures. For example, frogs eat mosquitoes. If the frogs disappear, then we will have a few more mosquitoes carrying a huge amount of additional diseases like West Nile virus. Several insects facilitate pollination of the flower... middle of paper ......ns-natural-gas-drilling.html>.Brown, Ellie and Micheal F. Jacobson. “Cruel oil How palm oil harms health, the rainforest and wildlife.” Center for Public Interest Science. Internet. November 17, 2011. "Interesting Facts About Rainforests." Web. November 29, 2011. "The Effects of Habitat Destruction - Environment 911." Environment 911 - Saving the Environment Through Sustainable Living. Web. November 17, 2011. "10 Easy Things You Can Do at Home to Protect Endangered Species." Endangered Species Coalition, November 15, 2011. "Finding solutions to animal loss." habitat".. 2011. .