Furs are a product of tanning fresh animal skin.

Foreign traders come to Finland to buy furs. They look for only the most valuable ones, like fox fur.

Bear fur provides the best protection against cold.

These animals provide fur:

• Sheep
• Bear
• Badger
• Glutton
• Beaver
• Reindeer
• (Artic) Fox
• Elk
• Wolf
• Lynx
• Polecat
• Weasel
• Pine-marten
• Hare
• Ermine
• Squirrel