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Air Tòir nan Ailbhean Molach/Mammoth Hunters

Ever since the international ban on elephant hunting, Russia has cornered the market in ivory using ivory from mammoth skeletons.

Bho thàinig casg eadar nàiseanta air sealg ailbhean tha An Rus air riaghladh an margaid eabor. Ach tha an eabor seo a tighinn bho nan ailbhean molach, tha na cnàimheach aca air an lorg gu tric anns an talamh reòite ann an Siberia. Margaid luach $2.5 million a tha ag obair a mach a Hong Kong gu h-araid.

Ever since the international ban on elephant hunting, Russia has cornered the market in ivory. But this ivory comes from mammoths; whose skeletons are constantly being discovered in the frozen earth of Siberia. A market estimated at 2.5 million dollars and whose central point is Hong Kong.

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