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.
Answer: D
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