This is quite natural, imo. Its well past the vague border of artificial vs natural. Its quite literally nature’s reaction to human presence, with no intentiona

This is quite natural, imo. Its well past the vague border of artificial vs natural. Its quite literally nature’s reaction to human presence, with no intentionality from humans, and directly against their wishes (obviously, they want more ivory, not less). If this were a movie about nature v technology, this would clearly be on nature’s side. It’s not even close to resembling the heavy handed nature of selective breeding for eg dogs. Im not sure how evolution would not be appropriate here, unless you considered that anything that touches humans is unnatural, and with transitive property, any third party touching the things humans touched is also made unnatural. If you accept this event as not being evolution, does anything still count as evolution since the 1800s?