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A. China said it will ban all domestic ivory trade and processing by the end of 2017. Ivory goods are seen as a status symbol in China, where consumer demand has led to widespread poaching and the decimation of Africa’s elephants.
C. With an annual GDP of only $400 per person, Somalia is far poorer than Zimbabwe with $2,000 per person. By comparison, GDP per person is $56,100 in the United States and $132,900 in Qatar, which tops the list in the CIA World Factbook.
D. The United States has banned imports of elephant and lion trophies from Zimbabwe. Restrictions on wealthy U.S. hunters, have led Zimbabwean officials to woo trophy seekers from China and Russia. U.S. officials have doubts about where money is going that has been raised by big game hunts by wealthy Americans like Donald Trump’s two sons, who killed an elephant in Zimbabwe in 2011.
Between 2010 and 2016, Europe’s population increased at a rate of only 0.08 of a percent of a year. Africa’s population rose at a rate 2.57 a year, while Zimbabwe’s population is increasing at a rate of 2.2 percent. Zimbabwe’s wildlife agency has said the wildlife-rich southern African country has 36,000-plus more elephants than it can support.