People and Their Environment: Equatorial Africa

People and Their Environment: Equatorial Africa

Multiple Choice

The crops grown on plantations under the colonial economic system in Equatorial Africa

• have been rejected in favor of more suitable local species that now form the region’s primary agricultural

  exports.

• remain the primary crops exported by the region today.

• destroyed the soil in the region and forced the closure of most plantations.

• spread as invasive species that overwhelmed and eliminated many native species.

Multiple Choice

The primary reason environmental laws and policies and preserves have not worked to prevent local people from

killing animals for ivory and bushmeat is

• poverty—the people will do anything to survive.

• illiteracy—the people cannot read the rules and signs.

• greed—the people know there are few other ways to become wealthy.

• ignorance—the people do not understand that many species are already endangered.

Open Ended

What seems to be the most effective strategy to curb the influx of illegal ivory sold on the black market?