We humans are such meddlesome creatures. On the one hand, there are a whole bunch who do not care if they cut down the rain forests and kill all the baby creatures there because all they see is the money.

On the other hand, there are the people who watched this incident and wanted to save the one little baby eagle – because they could SEE it was going to die, watched it die and then watched what happened afterwards.

The parents seemed to have abandoned the nest, which held two eaglets. There were calls by the public for wildlife officials to step in and save the chick.  But officials decided not to, and the baby died.

Those at the Biodiversity Research Institute, the organization behind Eaglecam1, have fielded “many inquiries, calls and concerns” about the eaglets — including a push to have the still-living chick removed from the nest, according to its website.

They’re not going to do it.

Nature is something that often makes us uncomfortable because it is not ‘civilised’ and it can seem brutal, but that is the way it is and the more we interfere the more we end up destroying the very delicate balance that perpetuates life-cycles.

Check out LATimes for more details