For aboriginal and other trappers living far from urban centers, beaver and other wild furbearers provide food as well as fur, income and other resources. Whatever is not eaten by trappers and their families is returned to the forest to feed other wildlife through the winter.
Answer by :
Serge Larivière, biologist, Cree Income Security Board (Quebec, Canada)
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