http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory-billed_woodpecker
The Ivory-billed woodpecker is the largest woodpecker in the world, at roughly 20 inches in length and 30 inches in wingspan. It is native to the Virgin forests in southeast US. Due to habitat destruction, and to lesser extent hunting, the numbers of these woodpeckers has decreased by a lot. Almost no forests today can maintain the Ivory-billed woodpecker. Reports of at least one male Ivory-billed woodpecker was found in Arkansas in 2004. An anonymous $10,000 reward was offered in June 2006 for information leading to the discovery of an ivory-billed woodpecker nest. What can humans and scientists do to help save these Ivory-billed woodpeckers from going extinct??????
We need to preserve species like this because they could case the food chain to be messed up. The worms and bugs in the trees could overpopulate.
ReplyDeletethis does seem to be a problem and i think that oddly enough, there arent much things we can do. or at least not that i can think of, my mind is not the most creative at the moment. but if i had to think of something, i would think that we could help more by limiting bird shooting or making it illegal or something like that.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Emma it would be bad to have the Forrests over populated with bugs, insects and stuff we don't want in the forrests
ReplyDeleteI hope that the Ivory-billed woodpecker does not go instinct because they eat the larvae of wood-boring beetles, seeds, fruit, other insects, and more and if the Woodpeckers were to disappear then the populations of these insects would go up. If this were to happen the food chains in the forests with these birds could get damaged.
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