This August saw the 90th anniversary of one of the most shameful periods in the history of the fur trade, an industry that has left a trail of blood, death and extinction in its wake for centuries. ‘Black August’, as the month has been since notoriously remembered, occurred in 1927 when the Queensland Government declared ‘open season’ on the iconic marsupials. During Black August, 600,000 koala pelts were collected, but
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The Finnish organisation Oikeutta eläimille has published photos and video shot at five Finnish farms showing overweight farmed blue foxes. The video shows caged, silver-coated foxes so overweight they appear to have difficulty moving around their cages. Oikeutta eläimille captured the shocking video footage at five fur farms across Ostrobothnia in western Finland. The videos were shot in the spring of 2017. The video, which is narrated in Finnish with
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Top academics and campaigners from around the world joined us in Oxford from 23-26 July to discuss the ethics of the fur trade. Talks and papers ranged from the fur trade in China, to the impact of fur farming on the environment to the way Disney portrays the wearing of fur. Watch the film here: Summer School Film 2017 from Oxford Animal Ethics It was a truly brilliant
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Help stop the barbaric seal hunt in Namibia by refusing to visit the country until the hunt’s abolition – and let the Namibian government know! This year once more saw the continuation of the Namibian seal hunt, a brutal and cruel annual event that is now the only one of its kind left in the Southern hemisphere. Tens of thousands of cape fur seal pups- less than a year old-
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Ban on fur farms had passed the Czech Senate and has now been signed into law by the President. Last month, the Czech Senate finally approved the amendment of the law against cruelty to animals that proposes a full ban on the fur farms in the Czech Republic. In a historic, landslide vote 39 senators voted for the ban and 3 voted against. Having passed the Chamber of Deputies, senators
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It has been another busy year in our campaign to end the cruel fur trade and 2025 promises to be eve ...
A private members’ bill to end the import and sale of real fur in Britain has been introduced ...
In a monumental victory for animal protection, the Romanian Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to b ...
