Each year in Canada, fur-bearing animals including badgers, bears, beavers, bobcats, cougars, coyotes, ermines, fishers, foxes, lynx, martens, mink, muskrats, otters, rabbits, raccooons, seals, skunks, squirrels, wolves and wolverines, are trapped and killed for their fur.

In 2009 (the most recent data available from Statistics Canada), the total number of animals trapped in Canada was 730,915 (this does not include the 2.6 million animals killed on fur farms). The following map (Figure 1) shows the breakdown by province.

The following chart provided by Statistics Canada (Figure 2) shows the breakdown of individual species trapped each year in Canada.