Scientists are speaking out about the need to possibly ban the currently legal trade of mammoth ivory tusks which are being dug up out of the melting Arctic and driving up demand for illegally poached tusks as well.

The melting of the Arctic circle has made some of its previously buried treasures more accessible to humans. 

One of the valuable artifacts is the tusks of mammoths which are legal to sell because the animals have long been extinct. 

However, there is now debate over whe