Not quite. Socialist Tanzania did a pretty good job for a long time preserving its big game animals.
How? By allowing legal hunting - which I believe it still does. Kenya, which outlawed hunting in 1976, saw its herds devastated by poaching.
Demand for ivory is so high now that 25,000 elephants were slaughtered last year alone. And this years slaughter rate is even faster than last years. Trying to meet the ivory demand with legalized hunting would still lead to the elephants extinction.
Yes, T-Zed lost 10,000 to poachers last year alone. It’s over... sad... grim...