There is an easy way that ~could~ end Ivory poaching and reverse the destruction of Elephant herds in Africa (and it would even turn poachers into animal protection agents): It’s called capitalism.
Allow the poachers to “OWN” whole herds and then teach them that if they allow the elephants to produce babies then in the future when these elephants are near old age/death they then could collect the tusk, this may take a few years with a change in culture the current poachers would become fierce protectors of “their” WILD herds (and the lands that these elephants graze on).
Just my 2, but the socialists would never listen to this. -JS
I’m not certain, but I think there’s somewhere in Africa where that’s been done.
Spot on. I spent many years in Africa. Outlawing trophy hunting, and commercial ivory led to the decimation of local animal populations, simply because they were reduced to the status of garden pest. When professional hunters and game managers were driven out, the field was left wide open to poachers and corrupt local officials who quickly depleted their greatest natural resource.
This “ivory ban” doesn’t even prevent the legal hunting of elephants for sport.