Which of the following activities would violate CITES?
A) Your friend catches a small-mouth bass that is technically not large enough to keep, but he keeps it and cooks it for dinner instead of releasing it.
B) Your friend transports firewood infested with emerald ash borer from Minneapolis to the Black Hills of South Dakota, inadvertently introducing the pest to Rapid City, where it destroys all of the ash trees in the city within a decade.
C) Your friend breaks into a California condor breeding facility and releases all of the condors being raised there because he feels sorry for them.
D) Your friend brings back an ivory chess set that he bought while on safari in Lesotho.
E) Your friend shoots a bald eagle that seems to be eying the calf he has been raising for his 4-H project.

The correct answer is letter D

CITES, which regulates international sales of wild species, has definitively voted to trade giraffes and mako sharks.

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) represents more than 180 countries, which meet every two or three years to update the list of species it regulates.

CITES, created more than 40 years ago, establishes international trade rules for more than 35,000 species of wild fauna and flora and has a mechanism to sanction countries that violate these rules.

countries such as spain, france and portugal colonized the region. although most of latin america was colonized by spain, the countries of portugal and france also had major influences on the region. due to war and disease, native populations were decimated.