Slaughter of Vietnam's elephants nearly complete

Sep. 10, 2012

Q: Poachers along with developers, loggers and villagers have reduced Vietnam's elephant population from thousands a generation ago to just a few dozen today. Where is Vietnam on this map?

Circle the area on this map

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Q: The last male elephant of one protected herd was recently found slaughtered in a forest with his head, trunk and tusks severed. Much of the illegal ivory finds its way to Vietnam's northern neighbor, which is . . .

A. China

B. Laos

C. Thailand

D. Korea

Q: A pound of ivory now goes for $1,000 on the streets of China's capital city of . . .

A. Hong Kong

B. Beijing

C. Shanghai

D. Taipei

Q: Not only elephants face extinction in Vietnam. Vietnamese police recently caught smugglers with four rare tiger cubs. An endangered sub-species of tiger is named after the river that forms a 15,000-square-mile delta at the southern end of Vietnam. What is the name of the river and delta?

A. Amazon

B. Ganges

C. Mekong

D. Yangtze

Q: In Nepal, a new study has shown, tigers seem to be taking night shifts in order to avoid their human neighbors. Nepal lies between China and which country?

A. Vietnam

B. Burma

C. Pakistan

D. India

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