Does it make sense as Kenya Prepares to Burn massive Ivory Piles to protect Elephants ?

More than 105 tons of ivory and 1 ton of rhino horns to make 12 towers which are to be torched  to encourage global efforts to help stop poaching of elephant and rhino in Nairobi. This is the single largest destruction of ivory in history of Kenya . It will coincide with  the Giants Club global meeting for the protection of Elephants which will be held in Kenya April 28 - 30  , 2016. 

Torching ivory to curb Poaching

Does it make sense to but the huge stacks ?  What is the point of burning the tusks of dead elephants?  Ivory tusks are valuable and unique objects. They are gifts of nature, left behind for our use, and from them artists can create works of beauty that have astonished generations of human beings. ( that's why they are poached ). 

Doesn't make sense that the more tusks the Kenyans burn, the fewer the tusks. The fewer the tusks, the higher the price. The higher the price, the more poachers ?  If the tusks were sold to artists and artisans at a reasonable price, the poaching for tusks would be less attractive is the argument here !

With the money generated from selling the ivory to be torched, the government could buy drones and other equipment to seek out poachers, and could hire an extra thousand soldiers to patrol poaching areas.  Kenyans would be richer and the elephants would be safer that way ........

whats your take on the torching of the massive Ivory by Kenyan Government  and other environment conservative agencies  ?