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I'm John Bashworth, Professor Dan Flores.

His new book is Wild New World.

The epic story of animals and people in America, we've established that the philosophy used by the hunters

and the profiteers of the 18th to 19th century is still in place, and yet in the 20th century

there are first small demonstrated efforts to preserve this or that creature.

And then large scale, and now in the 21st century, there's a recognition, naturalism, ecology,

that what was done in order to build America was wrong headed, and they can be corrected.

However, I want to go to a couple of small successes here that are a joy to celebrate.

The ivory bill woodpecker, Professor, this is such a surprise, because I wrote down in my notes,

disappeared last one, 1940s.

Well, the story is, it's miraculous, but it's also tragic.

We do think now, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service, about a year ago, that the ivory bill is extinct.

There are always people in the south, which was the ivory bill's original range, who believe they are seeing ivory bills.

And so there are endless stories that, in some bayou or swap, somewhere in the carolina, or in Louisiana, there are still some around.

But this was, of course, America's contribution to our candidate for the largest most charismatic woodpecker in the world.

It was one of our iconic animals from the colonial period into the 20th century.

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