What if, instead of "preserving" elephants, we farmed them? We could have hundreds of thousands. People dislike cattle for the environmental impact: come up with a McHorton and take the market away.
What would the environmental impact of that be?
Do elephants grow quickly enough for this to be economically viable?
and once all the elephants are gone?
They have decades long experience with managing elephant populations - maybe they know what they are doing?