The Poaching Problem.

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South Africa is home to approximately 80 percent of the world's 29,000 rhinos. It's also at the epicenter of a poaching crisis driven by consumer demand in Asia for rhino horns. In 2017 alone, 1,028 rhinos were poached in South Africa, many inside Kruger National Park. That's a rate of nearly three rhinos per day. But is the situation starting to turn around? As the graph at right shows, rhino poaching totals in South Africa have fallen slightly in recent years after peaking in 2014. Experts say that could be a sign that conservation efforts--like horn removal programs and airlifting rhinos to safer areasare beginning to make a difference. But they also note that the death toll remains alarmingly high.

The graph shows the number of rhinos poached in South Africa each year from 2006 through 2017.

ANALYZE THE GRAPH

  1. The first year on the graph that the number of poached rhinos in South Africa reached 1,000 was--.

    a 2012

    b 2013

    c 2014

    d 2015

  2. From 2014 to 2017, the number of poached rhinos in South Africa decreased by almost--.

    a 50

    b 100

    c 200

    d 300

  3. The number of poached rhinos in South Africa increased by about 330 between--.

    a 2007 and 2008

    b 2009 and 2010

    c 2012 and 2013

    d 2015 and 2016

  4. In 2017, 504 rhinos, or about -- of that year's total for South Africa, were poached inside Kruger National Park.

    a 25 percent

    b 35 percent

    c 40 percent

    d 50 percent

  5. You can conclude that rhino poaching in South Africa--.

    a skyrocketed for several years starting in 2010

    b will soon return to 2011 levels

    c has totaled about 10,000 animals since 2006

    d all of the above

    DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

  6. Based on the Upfront article, how might you explain the surge in rhino poaching that took...

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