Mammoths went extinct 3,600 years ago. Ivory from their tusks now sells for £330 per kilogram.
Russia is exporting 60 tons of mammoth ivory per year to China.
Scientists believe there may be as many as 150 million dead mammoths frozen beneath the Siberian tundra just waiting to be dug up.
Every year, from mid-June, when the tundra melts, until mid-September, hundreds if not thousands of mostly local people scour the tundra in northern Siberia looking for mammoth tusks.
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