Obama has a solution to save the elephants, ignoring the laws of supply and demand:
“U.S. wildlife agency destroys 6 tons of contraband ivory”
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pulverized about 6 tons of confiscated elephant ivory Thursday in an effort to strip the items of their value and make a statement against poaching.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/nov/14/nation/la-na-nn-ivory-destroy-20131114
I think it’s Botswana that has come up with a profitable solution to poaching elephants. They tranquilize the elephants and harvest the ivory.
It leave the elephant alive, produces revenue, and the elephants are no longer a desirable target for poachers.
HOWEVER this has created another problem. There are approximately 180,000 elephants in Botswana which do serious environmental damage all by themselves.
http://www.africahunting.com/content/2-wildlife-management-botswana-290/