Will "Our" Mammoths be Exported?

I am not the only one to spot THIS ARTICLE in The Guardian. It concerns the recent find of Palaeolithic fossils in a gravel quarry in the Cotswolds. The headline fossils were mammoth bones but much else was found and is suspected to be awaiting discovery. Tools made by Neanderthals were also found.

At first the quarry owners were welcoming and the BBC and David Attenborough made a documentary about the discoveries. But something has changed and the quarry owners want their fossils back!

The suspicion is that the quarriers had a better offer from the UAE who are building a new Natural History Museum in Abu Dhabi and are collecting specimens for it.

Should one oppose this? The British Museum would be a lot emptier if objects could not be exported from where they were found. Indeed many countries want there objects back. 

Does this apply to fossils? If you are a palaeontologist aching to getting your hands on good specimens the answer is obvious - keep the fossils local to me! We can keep cultural objects in Britain but does a British Mammoth have as much culture as a Leonardo Cartoon?

But I would rather see a mammoth in Bristol Museum or even London, rather than flying to Abu Dhabi to see it.