I read another article recently that had a picture of a huge pile of illegally poached tusks being burnt in a large pyre. I wondered about the logic of doing t

I read another article recently that had a picture of a huge pile of illegally poached tusks being burnt in a large pyre. I wondered about the logic of doing this. Wouldn't destroying a large number of tusks just increase the scarcity and thus the value, thus incentivising more poachers to kill more elephants? Burning the tusks wouldn't bring the elephants back to life. I would have thought instead that suddenly flooding the market with tons of cheap ivory would kill the value and reduce profit for distributors. Then again, it would probably spur demand when people see the increase in availability?!? No easy answer, but at the crux of it, we have to remove the almighty Dollar (oh, ok - Schilling) from the whole equation somehow.