That's like an extreme simplification of the situation.
a.) Less profitable does not mean non-profitable. Currently, the poachers are being paid couple hundreds of dollars for a pair of tusks which are worth like $350K on the black market. There is no way that legalization would drive price low enough for poaching to be non-profitable.
b.) Price of ivory for poachers is $0. Price of ivory for ranchers is $0+. How do you solve this?
> If the price got lower there would probably be less poaching.
You are making a ton of assumptions about the behavior of the market that I'm assuming you have nothing to back up with. But provide some links if you have anything, I'm all ears.
> Combine that with funded-via-non-poaching campaigns against poachers.
And organizations like http://vetpaw.org/
Yes, what about them? They are increasing the price?
a.) Less profitable does not mean non-profitable. Currently, the poachers are being paid couple hundreds of dollars for a pair of tusks which are worth like $350K on the black market. There is no way that legalization would drive price low enough for poaching to be non-profitable.
b.) Price of ivory for poachers is $0. Price of ivory for ranchers is $0+. How do you solve this?