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).

Many fur farmers manage to provide humane care on a large scale, but others can’t or won’t. And in the auction house sorting process, pelts from as many as 300 farms, good and bad alike, can ...

Although the Minnesota fur trade’s era of national influence ended in 1854, smaller-scale trading continued for decades. In the twenty-first century, the heritage of the voyageur remains ...

Campaigners are calling to an end to the fur trade Getty In Denmark, many farmers have already expressed alarm that the call to cull mink threatens the entire industry. In France, mink farming ...

Horns, feather and scales Each fur sample needs to soak for two hours in the enzyme. The subsequent analysis takes 80 seconds, although a specialist in mass spectrometry is required to operate the ...

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.

As owner of Petite Mort Fur, a company set up two years ago in the northeastern United States, she said she’s offering the fur industry an alternative to wild fur trapping and large-scale fur farms.

Although the British Fur Trade Association and auction houses such as Saga Furs claim that younger consumers are increasingly turning to fur, overall sales seem to be dropping. Between 2015 and 2018, ...