Biased Article- Poaching

This article is about the poaching problems, mainly in Africa. It states that in only three years, 100,000 elephants have been killed for ivory which is supporting the black market and keeping the prices of it high in Africa. There is also a high demand of ivory in China as well, which is worsening the situation. This article is leaning more towards biased because the author is saying how poaching is not a good thing and that down the road for the elephant population is not looking good if they continue being killed at this rate. The author really concentrates on the statistics and facts of the deaths of these elephants to emphasize his point of the article that this needs to stop.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140818-elephants-africa-poaching-cites-census/

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  1. chrheaNovember 2, 2017 at 3:58 PM

    This is probably related more to a single-appeal approach than to bias. The author (as evidence) only used statistics, which may not persuade as well as other methods. I'm interested in how the rest of the ecosystem will be effected by the decrease in elephant population.

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