In a letter to environment secretary Steve Reed, the cross-party group of 42 MPs and peers call for government backing for a ...

Sables are luxurious little animals. These fur-bearing mammals, native to the forests of Eurasia, have sandy yellow, light brown, dark brown and black coats, which are valuable commodities in the fur ...

We were tromping out onto a wetland frozen nine inches deep. It felt like how the fur trade began, someplace long ago, far away. Bill Mackowski, in his 60th year of trapping, mostly around ...

Humane society officials say foxes, raccoons, wolf-dog hybrids, skunks, opossums and coyotes were living in filthy cages with ...

FLINT, Mich. (WNEM) - From Fort Detroit to Flint, TV5′s Elisse Ramey shows us how an artist’s contemporary twist on history is shedding light on an industry not often talked about through ...

The underwool from the beaver pelts was used to make the beaver hat. The fur trade was based on the barter system and in the late 1700s a blanket was worth seven prime beaver pelts, a gun cost 14 ...

More than a century after the Hudson's Bay Company was founded, another great Canadian fur-trading company was born. The North West Company took its trade to the Indians by establishing a network ...

Explore the fascinating people and places of Minnesota’s first global business in “Fur Trade in Minnesota,” a new traveling exhibit from the Minnesota History Center coming to Gammelgården Museum (208 ...

Humane Society International, in a statement last month, said tens of millions of animals suffer and die each year in the global fur trade and the “vast majority of animals killed for their fur ...

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