Which of these sentences is an opinion disguised as a fact? A 2014 New York Times editorial reported that approximately 30,000 to 35,000 African elephants were killed each year B. In 1999, in response to pressure from business interests that we’re losing money because of the ban on the ivory trade, CITES allowed limited trade in stockpiled tusks. C Only a complete ban of the ivory trade can save the African elephant from extinction. D. Ivory that already had been harvested from elephants could once again be bought and sold.