Spain has ordered the culling of nearly 100,000 mink on a farm and an estimated one million mink have already been culled on Dutch fur farms, as coronavirus wreaks havoc in the European fur farming industry. Joaquin Olona, agriculture minister for the north-eastern Aragon region, said the cull would involve the slaughter of 92,700 mink […]
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Skinned foxes piled in heap ‘like scene from hell’ before fur sold as high street coats
EXCLUSIVE: WARNING, GRAPHIC IMAGES: TV wildlife star Chris Packham described a ‘scene from hell’ as harrowing footage and pictures are captured by undercover investigators who had ‘never seen so much death in one place’. Foxes are beaten, skinned and chucked on a heap before their fur is made into coats to be sold on the […]
Petition: Great News! Dutch Parliament Votes to Close Mink Farms
Dutch Parliament voted on June 23 to shut down 128 fur farms in response to the coronavirus outbreaks, according to the Humane Society International (HSI). 17 fur farms experienced coronavirus outbreaks, including two workers that contracted the virus from mink. HSI praised the closures, saying it’s a necessary move for a cruel industry. Mink farming […]
Dutch mink farms ordered to cull 10,000 animals over coronavirus risk
Dutch mink farms have begun a government-ordered cull over concern that animals infected with coronavirus could transmit it to humans. Infected mink have been found on 10 Dutch farms where the animals are bred for their fur, according to the country’s Food & Wares Authority. “All mink breeding farms where there is an infection will […]
Trump Administration Denies Endangered Species Protection for Pacific Fisher Across Most of Species’ Range
PORTLAND,Ore.— The Trump administration today denied Endangered Species Act protections to Pacific fishers from Northern California to the Canadian border, but granted them endangered status in the southern Sierra Nevada. The decision reversed a 2019 proposal to list fishers as threatened throughout their West Coast range. “The Trump administration’s denial of protection for fishers is […]
Coronavirus fears as China plans to protect vast mink and fox fur industry from backlash at wildlife trade
China is considering moves that would entrench its vast fur industry further into the country’s economy, raising worries over the spread of coronavirus among animals crowded together in small spaces. The country’s agriculture ministry is proposing to reclassify mink, raccoon dogs, silver foxes and blue foxes as domestic livestock, rather than wild animals, which they […]
Petition: Mink on Fur Farms Tested Positive For Coronavirus
According to an email from Humane Society International United Kingdom (HSI), mink on two fur farms tested positive for coronavirus. The mink, located in the Netherlands, were tested after they were noted to have difficulty breathing, per HSI. Fur farms are notoriously dangerous and inhumane operations. Each fur farm where the mink was found had […]
Need Another Reason to Stop Buying Fur? Watch this Sad Footage of Mink Attacking Each Other at a Lithuanian Fur Farm
Upsetting news from the Daily Mail has found that mink on a fur farm in Lithuania are attacking and eating each other in their terrible conditions. The animals were filmed by an animal rights group. The video shows the mink jumping up and down in their tiny cages and leaping in distress. One part of the video shows an animal has been ripped […]
