Data showed that 236 mink fur farms were found throughout the states in 2017, and just five years later, that number dropped just over 53 percent to 110 mink farms. With the speed of this decline ...

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) celebrates today’s passage of the Mink Facility Disease Prevention Act (H.B. 2627) in the ...

The City Council voted 26-19 against a ban on new fur sales in the city. Ald. Raymond Lopez and animal rights activists ...

The Department of Agriculture recorded 351 mink farms in 2000, down from the 2,836 farms that were in operation in the early 1940s. While American consumers were gravitating away from real fur ...

Fur farms dominate the trade, and production has more than doubled since the 1990s, to about a hundred million skins last year, mostly mink and some fox. Trappers typically add millions of wild ...

Half measures lead to half results: the safety of people and animals are still at risk by allowing fur farming to continue in British Columbia. After numerous COVID-19 outbreaks on mink farms and ...

People are being told that the fur trade not only sees animals suffering in filthy farms but they are also the breeding ...

Jo-Anne McArthur (Canada) shows American mink kits fighting for space in a nest box on a fur farm. Conducting investigations into animal cruelty is dangerous, but for Jo-Anne it is important to ...

Wildlife-advocacy and animal-protection groups sent an urgent letter today calling on Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and state officials to address mink fur farms’ escalating threats to public health and ...

A Caithness-based countryside ranger has outlined issues faced by wildlife from the invasive American mink and steps taken to ...

12,000-animal mink fur-farming operation have tested positive for COVID-19 and that the virus continues to spread within the facility. Adding mink to the prohibited species list would prohibit the ...