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The example of elephants producing less ivory for us to poach is unintentional selective breeding, yeah. Evolution works way faster when directed by an intelligence than when it's left up to a relatively stable environment, simply because we exert more pressure for change.
Nature can exert similar pressures without intelligence involved.