Environmental Interconnectedness

One of the many significant things the Ivory-billed Woodpecker represents is humanity and nature's ability to extirpate species specialist in the environment. The Ivorybill specializes on old, dead, and dying growth trees and a warm and moist habitat (which promotes rapid decay). Since nature, through severe weather conditions, does not possess judgment, humanity (who does possess judgment) should take great care not to harm another fellow species by logging, timber harvesting, poaching, and collecting. We have an ethical obligation to do so. Disrupting a species' habitat by our activities speaks to the environmental interconnectedness we, as a class, discussed at the beginning, an interconnectedness that Jonathan Rosen discusses by elucidating the spiritual, the aesthetic, the artistic, and the cultural importance of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.