Search for the Rare Ivorybill

I gathered two general bits of information while reading this article. First of all, I found that even though the extinction of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker may have not been common knowledge at the time, there were still people who cared deeply about their existence. I liked the way that Eckleberry included many sources that did just that, it gave him more ethos to work with, just by association. He mentions The Conservation Department in Louisiana and the National Audubon Society as large stake holders in the lives of these rare (at the time) birds.However, I also gathered from reading this article that it is a common problem for people to misconceive their effect on nature. For example, the young man who found out that the Ivory Bill was rare, so he brought in a dead one. He may have felt that he was doing something noble because he brought in that specimen (or maybe not, who knows), but he did the species a huge disservice by killing of one of the few living birds. I also realized the way that people tend to choose income or forwarding themselves over a species, with total disregard to the way that these creatures live. When I speak of that, I am talking about the lumber company that refused to make room for a conservation area. They simply did not want to lose area that could bring in revenue for them. I don’t think that people comprehend the seriousness of the problem in cases such as this one. Many people tend to have a “how much could it really change things” sort of mentality, which is only going to cause more and more problems as time goes on.