This protects the trapper from low-balling buyers, but the trade-off is that if the fur doesn’t sell, the trapper doesn’t get paid. At least not until the next quarterly sale. Fur Value. In 2014, ...

When the scale of the extermination became clear, ... Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America by Eric Jay Donlin is published by WW Norton & Co (£22.99).

End the fur trade now in order to prevent future pandemics, some of the world's leading health experts will warn today - speaking out on what they called a ticking time bomb.

Animal rights activists have called on the government to ban the fur trade in Hong Kong. Around 90 protesters were joined by three lawmakers for an annual rally against the industry in Wan Chai on ...