fur trade
Sign in to saveworldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur
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Within Vinony's link graph, fur trade is referenced by 2,764 other articles, and connects out to Indigenous peoples of the Americas, animal consciousness and transport.
It sits within the topics Animal welfare, Fur and Fur trade.
Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.
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Encyclopedic overview
A fur trader in Fort Chipewyan, Northwest Territories, in the 1890s A fur shop in Tallinn, Estonia, in 2019 Fur muff manufacturer's 1949 advertisement The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur. Since the establishment of a world fur market in the early modern period, furs of boreal, polar and cold temperate mammalian animals have been the most valued. Historically the trade stimulated the exploration and colonization of Siberia, northern North America, and the South Shetland and South Sandwich Islands.
Today the importance of the fur trade has diminished; it is based on pelts produced at fur farms and regulated fur-bearer trapping, but has become controversial. Animal rights organizations oppose the fur trade, citing that animals are brutally killed and sometimes skinned alive. Fur has been replaced in some clothing by synthetic imitations, for example, as in ruffs on hoods of parkas.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “fur trade” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.