Well, if you find a way to protect them without making them economically viable, let me know. Guides policing their hunting area is the best there is.
Kenya has tried the camera safari thing, to the destruction of their wildlife by 70%.
First you have to understand nature, just because none are hunted, they will still all die, as will you and I.
The issue is how to increase the elephant population not how to protect them from starvation.
And lacking matriarchs—dominant females to lead groups of cows, calves and younger males cannot grow up normal. They don’t know how to form regular herds and don’t understand what to do when confronted by threats. Without mature bulls to teach them how to behave, the males became unpredictable and dangerous, even picking fights with rhinos, pursuing them and goring them to death. They are without a doubt one of the most intelligent, social and empathic animals around.
The ivory markets should be shut down in Asia.