According to Inuit representatives, the pelts from around 300 bears are sold for rugs.
At the Fur Auction, graders remove a few representative pelts from each lot for display.
Farmers and trappers prepare skins by scraping off the fat, then stretching and drying the pelts.
The demand for their pelts also puts the chiru in danger of being hunted to extinction.
He travels the world in search of high-quality pelts, especially those caught in the wild.
The coureurs des bois were obliged to go further and further into the wilderness to seek those valuable pelts.
During the second trip, Watson spotted a sealer working near a pile of pelts, and became furious.
Hong Kong itself is the globe's largest importer of farmed pelts and exports more garments than anyone.
One rifle, stood on its end, could be exchanged for a stack of beaver pelts the same height.
And he rejected the idea that an increase in the price of pelts was leading to more hunting.
The workshop is a curious mixture of epoxy fumes and stacked cow pelts.
Early French and English colonists worked and lived in the country's far reaches to trap beavers for their pelts.
In the name of the tsar, they demanded pelts as yasak (tribute) from reindeer herders, steppes nomads and hunter-gatherers.
European explorers swapped axes, muskets and ammunition for pelts from Native Americans.
He hunts and traps muskrat, caribou and bear for their meat and pelts, driving an ATV or hiking up into the hills to find them.
Europe's fur farms produce over 30m mink and fox pelts a year.
That evening we eat dinner at the only restaurant in town, a steakhouse where the walls are covered with the pelts and glass-eyed heads of wild things.
They waddle down to the water to wash off the rust-colored guano that stains their pelts and produces a pungent odor that within days becomes expected with each landing.
In the 1830s, John Jacob Astor transferred his fortune in beaver pelts and international trade into real estate, to become New York's largest landholder and richest man.
The United States had proposed that polar bears be upgraded to Cites Appendix 1, meaning that no trade whatsoever could take place in their pelts, paws or fangs.
Two of the world's biggest clusters of manufacturers are in northern Greece and southern China, where pelts are cut and assembled into garments and accessories, often in family-run businesses.
For example, skinners, or traders in pelts, were by a 14th Century royal decree unable to market their goods "unless on the security of six reputable men of that mistery".
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They argue that the legal export trade from Canada is being taken advantage of by criminals who use false Canadian permits to export the pelts from around two hundred Russian bears each year.
Inside the North American Fur Auction, a reeking 15, 000-square-foot mausoleum, white-coated dealers from around the world pick among the 5.5 million stiff pelts--lynx, bobcat, mink, muskrat, fox, beaver and timber wolf among them.
Once the furs arrive at the house they're spun in a vat to fluff the coat, then ticketed, sorted by species, rated by color and quality and divided into lots, some as large as 250 pelts.
In the case of anticipated newcomers who might not have the capital to purchase the high-end product, Ross said the Design Centre will make an investment in their first collection by providing a couple of pelts.
The son's room now has no furniture, but the pelts of three raccoons, a beaver and a grey fox are on the wall, along with an unframed baby photo of Small's son, Shane, tacked to the wall.
But he held back his beaver pelts.
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