A Montreal-based fur company has pleaded guilty to illegally exporting polar bear skin rugs.
Earlier this month, Fourrures Mont-Royal pleaded guilty to three charges under federal laws forbidding wildlife trafficking and exploiting threatened species for profit.
The federal environment department fined the company $22,500, and seized a pair of rugs which had been offered up for sale to an auction house in Ontario.
Each was to sell for around $17,000.
The company has also been placed on the department's Environmental Offenders Registry.