I believe that the message the author is trying to convey in this excerpt is that humans need to take action to end further destruction of the natural environment, because if they don't, more and more species will disappear.
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is there a question or an image because I can't see any
This type of figurative language is a simile. This person is is being compared to a hornet, which aren't "mean" insects.