The extinction of plant and animal species in Mexico is just as tragic as the extinction of US species. Trouble is, specific areas in southern California and southeastern Arizona are absolutely unique. These habitats are being destroyed by the population explosion, almost entirely from Mexico. There are invertebrate species that are already extinct, ones we have never even found or named. Discussions by Northeast US residents about bird habitats and reduction in the population of large mammals seems to ring hollow, when the same people have nothing to say about plant habitat destruction or invertebrate extinction. No big eyes, no Bambi Syndrome.