I was heartened by the latest reports of sightings of the ivory-billed woodpecker, a bird thought to be extinct until a couple of years ago. There’s some controversy around whether or not the bird still exists, but it could, and people are looking. That’s a good thing.
If the ivory-bill could be confirmed among the living, alongside the Hoan Kiem Lake turtle and a few other ancients, I would sleep a little better at night. There’s so much about the natural world that we don’t understand, and much of it is slipping away.
