Variations of this come up all the time. Last reply I heard to this came down to. The difficulty of actually sedating the elephant. The danger of the elephants

Variations of this come up all the time. Last reply I heard to this came down to. The difficulty of actually sedating the elephant. The danger of the elephants waking up during tusks removal and hurting them self or the remover. Poachers would still kill the elephant to avoid needlessly tracking it