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It's really simple.

If you allow poahed ivory to be sold after confiscation, the following will happen:

1) poachers will allow ivory to be confiscated by corrupt officials.
2) the corrupt...

True.

Burning is not a solution to the root cause problem. But not burning would not fix the problem either, and -due to corruption- only make the poaching problem worse.

That's exactly it.

Release it to market, and the very next thing, you'll just have the poachers bribe a couple of officials who 'confiscate' poached ivory. The poachers get their cut via a shady...

That's the problem with Ivory. There is no visual difference between pre- and post ban ivory. And as long as there is a demand, people will continue poaching elephants.

In general, I don't mind...