The fur trade was one of the first commercial networks of the New World.

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The animals are hunted illegally for the fur trade and are also killed for meat.

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Keen to secure control over the fur trade and expand their territory, the Mohawks, an Iroquois tribe, attacked huron lands.

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In the early twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of people journeyed far to take part in the Canadian fur trade.

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In around 1675, they settled here under the name huron-Wendat, and began to challenge the Innu for control of the beaver fur trade.

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All of the people interviewed by Rebecca and Zahra, both 13, about the fur trade said that they would only wear fake fur.

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The European Union, the other major body seeking observer status, had its application affirmed but "deferred, " a rebuff that is likely related to an unresolved dispute with Canada over the fur seal trade.

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It is evidence in his campaign for a European Union ban on trade in cat and dog fur.

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It oversees trade in both live animals and plants, and also animal products, such as fur coats, and dried plants like herbs.

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