> No one is keeping domestic elephants for the ivory. Of course, since selling ivory is illegal. I've known people that had large acreage out in Texas that wan

> No one is keeping domestic elephants for the ivory. Of course, since selling ivory is illegal. I've known people that had large acreage out in Texas that wanted to raise elephants just for the ivory. The reason illegal ivory is such a lucrative business is because it is illegal! This is why the prices are high. If the market was flooded with legal ivory, there'd be no black market.