Hawks are high-level consumers, far up the food chain. Besides depriving the natural world of their genes, their extinction would set off a chain reaction, affecting the overall ecological balance.
老鷹身為食物鍊上的高層消費者，如果絕種，自然界不僅少了一個物種，更會引起連鎖反應，牽動整個生態系的平衡。