Kenya burns vast piles of elephant tusks as it seeks ban on trade

Q: Kenya's president set fire to thousands of elephant tusks and rhino horns, destroying a stockpile that would have been worth a fortune to smugglers and sending a message that trade in the animal parts must be stopped. Where is Kenya?

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Q: President Uhuru Kenyatta said poachers could wipe out Africa's elephants by 2025. The majority of the poached ivory is being shipped to which country where it is carved into products for a growing market?

A. China

B. India

C. Russia

D. United States

Q: Kenyatta's call for an ivory trade ban was backed at the burning ceremony by Ali Bongo, president of Gabon, home to the forest elephant. Gabon is on the western coast of Central Africa on which body of water?

A. Atlantic Ocean

B. Indian Ocean

C. Pacific Ocean

D. Mediterranean Sea 

Q: Kenya burned 105 tons of ivory and a ton of rhino horn. Asia also is the market for the horns from the quickly disappearing rhinos. Consumers in what southeastern Asian nation are buying much of the smuggled rhino horn?

A. Saudi Arabia

B. Turkey

C. Vietnam

D. Yemen

Q: While China may be the major consumer of ivory today, the biggest ivory importer in the past was the former colonial ruler of Kenya . . .

A. Belgium

B. Britain

C. France

D. Germany


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