My thought has always been that poaching is a economic problem and requires an economic solution. The reason why elephants are being killed is because they're

My thought has always been that poaching is a economic problem and requires an economic solution. The reason why elephants are being killed is because they're worth more dead than alive to the poacher and likely the local community or otherwise the local community would do more to protect the animals from poachers. What if there was a fund that paid local communities for each live elephant? The community now has an incentive to prevent poaching. I suppose some of the foreseeable side effects could be the community preventing elephant migration in order to increase the local numbers, but these types of details could be worked out.