Fur Farming

A new film aims to unearth the secrets of Canada's fur trade. "The Farm In My Backyard" holds a magnifying glass to the environmental and animal welfare concerns of fur production in Nova Scotia. ...

Slovakia is banning fur farming. The Slovak National Council just passed legislation against fur farming, which will go into effect in 2021. The country's existing fur farms will be phased out by 2025. Slovakia is...

(Updated June 27, 2019). Ireland is moving forward with a ban on fur farming. It will become the 15th European country to enact such a ban. The move was approved by the Cabinet earlier this...

Fur farming could soon be illegal in Ukraine, according to anti-fur organization the Fur Free Alliance. Thirty-six Ukrainian MPs introduced a bill to ban fur farming in early February, the organization reports. With support from Unique...

A full ban on fur farming in the Czech Republic is now in effect. The law, originally passed in June 2017, shuts down the nation's handful of remaining fur farms. Nine fox and mink fur...

Bulgaria is moving closer to a ban on fur farms, according to the NGO The Civic Initiative for Banning the Extraction of Valuable Skins in Bulgaria. In June, the initiative delivered a petition with more than...

Thanks to newly updated animal rights laws, Luxembourg has become the tenth nation in the European Union to ban fur farms. Whilst there are no known farms of this nature currently operating in the...

The UK Labour Party has pledged to ban all fur imports into the country. Whilst fur farming has been illegal in the UK since 2000, the country still imports high quantities of the fabric. Last...

Former frontman of The Smiths, singer-songwriter Morrissey, has written a letter to the Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine requesting that fur farming be outlawed in Ireland. The letter, that was written on...