[sagar]

“Or you could be wrong. The facts simply do not support your theory!”

But where is the evidence that hunting/poaching “protects” wild elephants?

You could argue the same line w.r.t. poaching as well. Since poachers “need” ivories, they wouldn’t want to wipe out elephants. So, poaching is good for the elephants.

[728b]

"But where is the evidence that hunting/poaching “protects” wild elephants?"

Nobody is offering any evidence that poaching "protects" anything. Only just now you equated the two. Do you believe that hunters are poachers?

"You could argue the same line w.r.t. poaching as well. Since poachers “need” ivories, they wouldn’t want to wipe out elephants. So, poaching is good for the elephants."

I guess you could argue it but it does not hold water. Are you really trying to convince us that thieves are forward looking people?

Just because you could argue it does not mean the argument is reasoned.

[Double Tap]

But where is the evidence that hunting/poaching “protects” wild elephants?

Nice little bit of hyperbole there. Hunting is not poaching. Hunting raises fees that are used to STOP poaching and to better manage the herd.

You are wrong, period. Where hunting is legal, elephants are in large numbers. Where hunting is banned, poaching has reduced the elephant numbers drastically.