I posted this earlier, but for your benefit:
Legal elephant hunting is keeping the elephant from extinction.
When the elephants are not worth anything to the local people, who view them as pests, the elephants go away and the local poachers become heroes.
Elephants breed to overpopulate the available habitat.
Either the government kills them, which costs money, sport hunters kill them, which brings in money, or poachers kill them, which wastes most of the elephant.
Those are the choices.
Sad choices.