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Read this excerpt from a passage.
Unfortunately, saving elephants had a negative economic effect on some people. In 1999, in response to pressure from
business interests that were losing money because of the ban on the ivory trade, CITES allowed limited trade in stockpiled
tusks. Ivory that already had been harvested from elephants could once again be bought and sold.
But disaster for the African elephant followed. Poachers, or illegal hunters, rushed to kill more elephants. Many people had
foreseen that illegal trading of ivory would flourish again if any trading at all were allowed. Following the CITES decision,
African elephants died in large numbers. A 2014 New York Times editorial reported that approximately 30,000 to 35,000
African elephants were killed each year. Only a complete ban of the ivory trade can save the African elephant from extinction.
What is one way that the author shows bias toward the topic?
The number of elephants killed does not seem realistic, so it could be false.
The author states that "saving elephants had a negative economic impact on some people," which a cruel way of thinking
about elephants.
The author does not use a primary source as evidence.
The author uses subjective language to describe the effects of the poaching.
