Author: Kristin Stone

Update June 22, 2017: The reform to the federal criminal code to penalize dogfighting has been published in the federal registry. This finalizes the legislative process of outlawing the cruel practice at the federal level.

Mexican lawmakers have approved penalties for dogfighting and the activities surrounding it, including organizing fights, owning or trading a fighting dog, possessing property used to hold fights or attending a fight as a spectator. The law will be enacted as soon as it is published in the federal register (Diario Oficial de la Federación).

Anton Aguilar, executive director of Humane Society International/Mexico, issued the following statement:

“We are grateful to our lawmakers for first banning, and now penalizing, dogfighting in Mexico. For too long, countless dogs have suffered and society has deteriorated because dogfighting, and the criminal rings that surround it, have largely been left untouched by the Mexican legal system. Those days are over. Dogfighters beware – dogfighting is a criminal activity in Mexico and now anyone participating or supporting this cruel spectacle could face serious consequences under the law.”

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Timeline:

• April 2017: The Senate Justice Committee approves dogfighting penalties, moving the bill to the full Senate, which voted today to approve the penalties.
• January 2017: the Senate and the House of Representatives passed a reform of article 82 BIS 2 of the Ecological Equilibrium and Environment Protection General Law mandating that the Federation, the Federal States and Mexico City penalize the dogfighting within a year.
• December 2016: the House of Representatives passed a reform of the federal criminal code penalizing various activities related to dogfighting, including organizing fights, owning or trading a fighting dog, possessing a property used to hold fights, and attending a fight as a spectator.
• July 2016: HSI/Mexico launched an anti-dogfighting campaign, including a petition for legislators to ban and penalize dogfighting in Mexico. In November 2016, HSI presented the more than 200,000 signatures obtained supporting the petition.

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WASHINGTON—In response to recent scientific consensus on giraffes’ vulnerability to extinction, five wildlife protection groups today petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect Earth’s tallest land animal under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

The legal petition, filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, Humane Society International, The Humane Society of the United States, International Fund for Animal Welfare and Natural Resources Defense Council, seeks “endangered” status for the species. Facing mounting threats from habitat loss, being hunted for their meat, and the international trade in bone carvings and trophies, Africa’s giraffe population has plunged almost 40 percent in the past 30 years and now stands at just over 97,000 individuals.

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“Giraffes have been dying off silently for decades, and we have to act quickly before they disappear forever,” said Tanya Sanerib, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “There are now fewer giraffes than elephants in Africa. It’s time for the United States to step up and protect these extraordinary creatures.”

New research recently prompted the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to elevate the threat level of giraffes from ““least concern” to “vulnerable” on the “IUCN Red List of Threatened Species”. Yet giraffes have no protection under U.S. law. Species designated as “endangered” under the U.S. Endangered Species Act receive strict protections, including a ban on most imports and sales. The United States plays a major role in the giraffe trade, importing more than 21,400 bone carving, 3,000 skin pieces and 3,700 hunting trophies over the past decade. Limiting U.S. import and trade will give giraffes important protections.

“Previously, the public was largely unaware that trophy hunters were targeting these majestic animals for trophies and selfies. In the past few years, several gruesome images of trophy hunters next to slain giraffe bodies have caused outrage, bringing this senseless killing to light,” said Masha Kalinina, international trade policy specialist with the wildlife department of Humane Society International. “Currently, no U.S. or international law protects giraffes against overexploitation for trade. It is clearly time to change this. As the largest importer of trophies in the world, the role of the United States in the decline of this species is undeniable, and we must do our part to protect these animals.”

Known for their six-foot-long necks, distinctive patterning and long eyelashes, giraffes have long captured the human imagination. New research recently revealed that giraffes live in complex societies, much like elephants, and have unique physiological traits, like the highest blood pressure of any land mammal.

“I was lucky enough to study giraffes in the wild in Kenya many years ago. Back then, they seemed plentiful, and we all just assumed that it would stay that way,” said Jeff Flocken, North American regional director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). “Giraffes are facing a crisis. We cannot let these amazing, regal and unique creatures go extinct—it would be a dramatic loss of diversity and beauty for our planet. This listing petition is rallying the world to help save the giraffe.”

The IUCN currently recognizes one species of giraffes and nine subspecies: West African, Kordofan, Nubian, reticulated, Masai, Thornicroft’s, Rothchild’s, Angolan and South African. Today’s petition seeks an endangered listing for the whole species.

“I can’t—and won’t—imagine Africa’s landscape without giraffes,” said Elly Pepper, deputy director of NRDC’s wildlife trade initiative. “Losing one of the continent’s iconic species would be an absolute travesty. Giving giraffes Endangered Species Act protections would be a giant step in the fight to save them from extinction.”

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has 90 days to review and respond to the petition and determine whether a listing may be warranted. Help protect giraffes and another animals.

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Martin Coiteux, the Quebec Minister of Public Security, under the leadership of Philippe Couillard (PLQ), has introduced draft legislation that would give the government new powers to impose restrictions on certain dogs and their owners, including bans on specific breeds. The proposed legislation specifically targets pit bull type dogs and Rottweilers, as well as crosses of those breeds. Without scientific basis, the legislation arbitrarily declares these breeds as “potentially dangerous.” Regulations restricting the ownership of these breeds may be introduced later and the government announced its intention to eventually ban pit bull type dogs.

Ewa Demianowicz, campaign manager for Humane Society International/Canada, stated:

“We are appalled by this senseless and archaic legislation that flies in the face of the best available science and expert advice. Breed specific legislation has been prohibited in 20 U.S. states because it is highly ineffective, costly and exposes governments and taxpayers to legal challenges. The proposed law will do nothing to increase public safety, and will divert public funding that could have been applied to proven solutions that would effectively reduce dog bites and attacks. Furthermore, it is highly irresponsible for the Quebec government to state its intentions on specific breeds when the province’s largest city, Montreal, is currently facing a legal challenge for that very reason.

“Laws that regulate dog ownership based on breed, type of dog or size stem from false assumptions and have been proven ineffective in all jurisdictions where they were implemented. Moreover, they have very real negative impacts on families, on healthy and behaviorally sound dogs, and on the community. To increase public safety, we need laws that apply equally to all and that promotes responsible pet ownership regardless of breed.

“We are calling on the Quebec government to amend the proposed legislation and remove breed-specific language in the draft law. Additionally, we encourage municipalities throughout the province to adopt a similar approach and reject policies we know don’t work.”

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Facts:

• There is no evidence that breed-specific laws reduce dog bites or attacks on people, and experts have found that no breed is more likely to bite than another. In fact, no jurisdiction has been able to prove that this kind of legislation has improved public safety.
• Although Ontario adopted a province-wide ban on pit bull type dogs in 2005, since then, the number of severe dog bite related hospitalizations has increased.
• Proper enforcement of laws that apply to all dog owners regardless of breed and access to pet services such as low cost spay/neuter and education have effectively reduced dog bites and attacks in other jurisdictions, like Calgary.
• Twenty US states prohibit breed-specific laws.
• The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association and the Ordre des médecins vétérinaires du Québec have clear position statements that do not support breed specific legislation.

Media Contact: Christopher Paré, 514 395-2914, cpare@hsi.org

Humane Society International/India is offering a reward of 1,00,000 INR (about $1,500 US) for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the person responsible for stealing four tusks from the Sankarankulangara devaswom, Kanattukara.

The case: An article published in Deccan Chronical (Thrissur edition), dated 8 April, 2017, reported that four tusks were stolen from the devaswom. These tusks, reportedly weighing 700kg, belonged to two elephants who died nearly two decades ago.

Sumanth Bindhumadhav, wildlife campaign manager of HSI/India, said, “The ivory trade in India is growing rampant as it is and the last thing we need now is for ivory from religious institutions, government inventory and captive facilities to contribute to this destructive industry. In the past, thieves have stolen ivory from the stockpile of the Forest Department itself and sold it in the black market. This particular case emphasizes the need for a central government policy on stockpile management across private and government holdings so stolen ivory can be identified immediately. An arrest and conviction in this case will act as a stark reminder to everyone that the law enforcement agencies and the judiciary treats the matter of wildlife trade as a serious offence. We urge anyone with information about this offence to talk to us.”

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Despite the prohibition on trade of ivory in the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, elephants continue to be poached for their tusks, with captive-owned elephants becoming a significant source of raw ivory. The Forest Department must have a more stringent auditing system to take an account of existing ivory, seized stocks and ivory from dead captive elephants, to effectively enforce the trade ban and curb instances of poaching. 

HSI/India has been working to mitigate human-animal conflict issues in the country through community engagement, public education and awareness campaigns, and sensitization training of the Forest Department. In the past, HSI/India has been successful in identifying and arresting the culprits of a Kerala dog bestiality case, a New Delhi Green Park Metro dog stabbing case, the puppies burnt alive in Hyderabad and other cases of animal cruelty.

Media Contact: Alokparna Sengupta, asengupta@hsi.org

Taiwan’s legislature has banned the dog and cat meat trade, earning applause from Humane Society International. Taiwan becomes the second territory in the Greater China Region to ban dog meat consumption. Hong Kong banned dog meat consumption in 1950, the first in Asia to ban the eating habit.

Adam Parascandola, director of animal protection and crisis response for HSI, said: “Taiwan’s legislature has taken a monumental step in ending the dog meat trade. This legislation is going to send a message to the Chinese mainland, Nagaland state in India, Indonesia and other Asian countries where dog meat consumption is still legal that ending the brutal dog meat trade is the positive trend across Asia and a step in the public’s long-term interest. Most people in Asian countries do not eat dog and cat, and most find the cruel and often crime-fueled trade appalling. The animal protection movement is growing rapidly across Asia and the calls for an end to dog meat cruelty are getting louder and louder.”

HSI is one of the leading organizations campaigning across Asia to end the dog meat trade that sees around 30 million dogs a year killed for human consumption. It’s a trade that subjects dogs to horrifying treatment and raises serious human health concerns for traders and consumers alike, all for a type of meat that relatively few people eat on a regular basis. Similar problems face an unknown number of cats.

Taiwan’s 1998 Animal Protection Act indirectly banned dog meat consumption by outlawing killing dogs and hurting dogs. In the United States, Representatives Alcee L. Hastings, D-Fla., Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., Dave Trott, R-Mich. and Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., introduced a bill last month to prevent domestic trade and imports of dog meat. Thailand, Hong Kong andthe Philippines also have dog meat bans in place.

Facts:

• In China, HSI supports Chinese groups to rescue dogs from trucks bound for the dog meat markets, uncover the immense cruelty that takes place at the slaughterhouses, and draw attention to the plight of the animals.
• In South Korea, thousands of dog farms throughout the country rear an estimated 2.5 million dogs each year for human consumption. HSI has worked with seven farmers since 2015 to shut down their farms and rescue 825 dogs. By helping farmers transition into humane trades, HSI is demonstrating that a government-led dog meat farm phase out is possible and desired by many farmers in the industry.

Media Contact: Raúl Arce-Contreras, rcontreras@humanesociety.org, 301-721-6440

The Atlantic Canadian commercial slaughter of baby seals – in which tens of thousands of harp seals just a few weeks of age are shot and clubbed for their fur each year – opened today at 6 am. The mass killing follows a commercial slaughter of several thousand adult seals that was controversially authorized on March 28th while harp and hooded seals were likely still nursing their pups.

Rebecca Aldworth, executive director of Humane Society International/Canada, stated:

“For 18 years, I’ve observed the Atlantic Canadian seal slaughter at close range and witnessed a level of suffering most adult people can’t bear to watch on video. Almost all of the seals killed are pups just a few weeks old and they are treated brutally. Baby seals are routinely shot and wounded, and left crawling through their own blood on the ice, crying out in agony. Many conscious, wounded baby seals are impaled on metal hooks and dragged onto the bloody decks of the boats where they are clubbed to death. Wounded seal pups also escape into the water, where they die slowly and painfully.

Canadian government scientists have repeatedly stated in recent weeks that harp seal pup mortality is increasing because of the devastating impacts of climate change on their sea ice habitat. Allowing an industrial scale hunt for a population of marine mammals already compromised by climate change is reprehensible. 

In defending, funding and promoting this senseless slaughter of baby seals, the Trudeau administration is completely out of step with Canadian values and the international community. Forty countries worldwide—including the United States, the European Union nations, Russia and China—prohibit trade in products of commercial seal hunts and/or protect their seal populations from commercial hunting. It is time our government joined the 21st century and ended the Atlantic Canadian commercial seal hunt, while investing in more humane, safe and sustainable jobs for our coastal communities.”

Facts:

• With more than two million seals killed since 2002, the Atlantic Canadian commercial seal hunt is considered the largest slaughter of marine mammals on Earth.
• The seals are killed for their fur and, because the skins of young pups are most valuable, 98 percent are less than three months old at the time of slaughter.
• Veterinarians have called the methods of commercial sealing “inherently inhumane” and argue that prohibiting seal product trade is the most effective way to reduce the killing.
• Climate change is fast destroying the sea ice habitat of the harp seals that are targeted in the Atlantic Canadian commercial seal hunt. Dr. Garry Stenson, section head of the marine mammal science branch with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, talked about the sea ice conditions and their impact on seals in an April 5, 2017 iPolitics article: “We’ve got an overall declining trend…a combination of overall less ice, sometimes in extent and thickness, but also increased storming. We’re seeing two things: fewer animals pupping and when they do, there is a high mortality with it…What we’ve found is that if we don’t include mortality due to ice, you can make huge errors in where you think the population is going. We’ve been seeing years where ice mortality is very high. We’ve seen dead pups that have drowned. It has a big impact on mortality.”
• The United States, the 28 countries of the European Union, Mexico, Russia, Taiwan and Switzerland have all prohibited trade in products of commercial seal hunts.
• In 2013 and 2014, the World Trade Organization twice upheld the rights of nations to prohibit seal product trade for animal welfare reasons.
• In the absence of global markets for products of commercial seal hunts, the Canadian and Newfoundland governments heavily subsidize Atlantic Canada’s sealing industry, with millions of dollars in public funds being used in recent years to purchase, process and market seal products that have few international buyers.
• HSI supports a fair transition program for the few hundred Atlantic Canadian commercial fishermen who continue to hunt seals between other fishing seasons.
• HSI takes no issue with the Inuit subsistence seal hunt that occurs in the Canadian arctic. While the vast majority of seals killed by Inuit sealers are consumed and traded locally, international prohibitions on seal product trade contain clear exemptions for Inuit seal products. In 2015, the Canadian government committed $5.7 million to assist Inuit sealers in certifying, branding and marketing their products.
• Dr. Gary Stenson, Section Head for Marine Mammals for Fisheries and Oceans Canada, concluded in 2011 that harp seals do not appear to be harming cod stocks either through direct consumption or through competition for prey species.
• HSI’s Protect Seals campaign has saved 2.5 million seals in the past decade.

Media Contact: Christopher Paré – office: 514 395-2914 x 206 / cell: 438 402-0643, email: cpare@hsi.org

Photos and b-roll footage from last year’s commercial seal hunt is here. B-roll footage from previous years is here.

LONDON—A joint investigation by Humane Society International/UK and Sky News has discovered shoes containing real cat fur for sale on the British high-street by youth fashion chain Missguided.

The import and sale of fur from domestic cats and dogs has been banned across the EU since 2009, and Missguided is a vocal advocate of its fur-free policy. Despite this, laboratory tests confirmed that the pom-poms of fur decorating the shoe were cat fur [1]. The shoes, which have been on sale by the retailer both online and at its Westfield Stratford store, list only man-made materials on the label.

Concerned shopper Donna Allison alerted HSI/UK to the shoes after suspecting they contained real animal fur, despite receiving an assurance from the store’s official Twitter account of their policy to only sell fake fur. In countries such as China – where the Missguided shoes were made – an estimated two million cats a year, including pet cats, are snatched from the streets and killed for their meat and fur.

HSI has contacted Missguided about the finding and has forwarded the information to Trading Standards and asked that the enforcement authority investigates the findings further in relation to the The Cat and Dog Fur (Control of Import, Export and Placing on the Market) Regulations 2008.

Donna Allison said: “I find it horrifying that Missguided and other retailers are selling real fur — in my case cat fur — and that they didn’t appear to take action when I raised my concerns about this serious issue. All retailers should be taking action to ensure complete traceability of their materials. It’s unacceptable that they are helping fund an industry where animals have to endure unimaginable cruelty and for something so unnecessary. I urge everyone to be more vigilant and understand how to identify and ensure they’re buying faux fur.”

Whilst trade in dog, cat and also seal fur is banned across the EU, and all fur farming has been illegal on moral grounds in the UK since 2003, imports of fur from a range of species such as fox, rabbit, mink, coyote, racoon dog and chinchilla can still be legally sold here. It’s a double standard that makes no moral sense, and yet as a member of the EU single market, unilaterally banning the trade of fur into the UK would likely have been challenged in Brussels and by EU member nations that continue to farm animals for their fur.

However, Brexit offers the opportunity to change that, and HSI/UK is calling on the British government to make the United Kingdom a fur-free zone by extending the cat, dog and seal fur bans to all fur-bearing species. A 2016 YouGov opinion poll [2] asked whether people found it acceptable or unacceptable to buy and sell fur from nine different species and found that, averaged across all species, only one in ten people believe it is acceptable to buy and sell real fur.

Claire Bass, executive director of HSI/UK, said: “It is extremely concerning to find cat fur on sale illegally in the UK, both because of the cruelty that cat and all fur products represent, but also because it will rightly dent the confidence of consumers seeking to buy only fake fur. Fake faux fur is a growing problem; when items have cheap price tags and labels saying ‘100% acrylic’, consumers can understandably be caught out mistaking them for fake fur, when in fact they contain fur from a tormented animal. Independent stores, popular markets like Camden as well as online retailers are awash with cheap animal fur-trimmed garments that are either mislabelled as ‘faux’ or not labelled at all. To properly protect both animals and consumers the government needs to take action to stop Britain’s insidious fur trade.”

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The Missguided ‘fake faux’ fur shoes are the latest in a large number of similar items exposed by HSI/UK over the past couple of years, including several well-known high-street brands. Most recent items discovered by HSI’s secret shoppers from December 2016 – February 2017 include:

• another shoe style at Missguided that tested positive for rabbit fur;
• a pair of gloves at ‘fur free’ retailer House of Fraser that tested positive for rabbit fur;
• a range of shoes from Westfield Stratford store Primars all sold as fake fur but found in tests to contain fur from rabbit, mink and fox;
• a bobble hat sold on Amazon UK as faux fur but testing positive for raccoon dog or fox fur (this listing included an on-screen no-fur assurance); and
• another bobble hat sold on popular fashion boutique website Lily Lulu sold as “faux fur” online, labelled as 10% marmot on delivery but testing positive for raccoon dog fur when sent to the lab

In several cases where HSI’s secret shopper questioned staff in-store, they incorrectly confirmed items were faux fur. HSI/UK believes that most consumers would be horrified to discover they’ve inadvertently bought real fur.

HSI’s Claire Bass said: “We know that the vast majority of British people reject the inherent cruelty of the fur trade but at the moment they are not getting the right information as consumers to avoid it. Clear labelling of all fur is an obvious starting point that will likely reduce the UK’s fur trade significantly, but we don’t believe that goes far enough. Whether it’s fur from coyotes caught in the wild in agonising traps, raccoon dogs and foxes enduring miserable lives and painful deaths by electrocution on fur farms, or cats bludgeoned to death in China, we believe all fur is cruel and should be banned regardless of species. Morally, there is no logic to banning fur from some animals and not others, and Brexit means we could have the opportunity to reflect public opinion and make the UK the world’s first fur-free nation.”

Around the world in countries such as China, France and Poland, animals on fur farms can be subjected to the same terrible conditions as those the UK banned back in 2000, with the UK’s final fur farm closing in 2003. Beautiful wild animals are kept their entire lives in filthy, tiny cages, forced to endure physically and mentally damaging conditions before being killed and skinned for their fur. Wild animals such as coyotes fair no better, caught in agonising traps for hours or even days before they’re put out of their misery.

Get active – urge Ministers to support a Fur-Free Britain at hsi.org/furfreebritain and for more information go to hsi.org/makeitfake Check out our guide to identifying real vs. fake fur [pdf]

View the full Sky News report.

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Notes to editor

1. Missguided shoe test results were produced on 21 December 2016 by Dr Phil Greaves, C.Text.FTI; Dip. RMS who has almost 45 years’ experience in fibre analysis, from Microtex Laboratory, a lab used by Trading Standards for fur analysis. Microscopy testing of any fur sample will always deliver a verdict that the sample is ‘most consistent with xyz species’ meaning that the fibres had the morphological and characteristic features of that species. The fur from the pink Missguided shoes are most consistent with cat.

2. YouGov opinion poll commissioned by HSI UK. All figures, unless otherwise stated, are from YouGov Plc. Total sample size was 2051 adults. Fieldwork was undertaken between 9th and 12th September 2016. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all GB adults (aged 18+).The poll listed nine species, including domestic dog, mink, seal, fox and rabbit, and asked people whether or not they found it acceptable for fur from these animals to be bought and sold in the UK. Results reveal that less than 10% of people feel it is acceptable to be able to buy and sell products containing domestic dog fur (7%), seal fur (8%), and cat fur (9%), respectively, and indeed such imports are banned by law. But critically the poll also shows similar distaste for fur items from other species that can still be legally sold here – only between 8 and 12% of people said that they found it acceptable to buy or sell fur from foxes (12%), mink (12%), chinchilla (9%), raccoon dogs (8%) and coyotes (8%) (the last of which are not farmed, but wild trapped). Rabbit fur had the highest approval rating, but is still only acceptable to one in five people despite being one of the most commonly found fur trim items on the high-street.

3. FAQs about fur labelling
Q: Is it legal to sell fur trim [clothing] not labelled as fur?”
A: Yes, there is no requirement to use the specific word “fur” or to name the animal. However, Article 12 of the EU Textile Labelling Regulation requires that items defined as “textile products” must carry the confusing wording “contains non-textile parts of animal origin”. An article is only classified a textile product if it contains at least 80% textile fibres by weight. Note that fur is not a textile, which means perversely that the more fur an item contains, the less likely it is to require labelling. Regardless, in practice this confusing wording requirement is very rarely adhered to, and even where it is the wording doesn’t clearly tell consumers it means “real animal fur”, especially as it applies equally to other animal products such as leather or feathers/down. In addition, the wording is only required to appear on the product itself, not at point of sale or when advertised online, and it doesn’t apply at all to footwear or non-garment accessories such as handbags and keychains. If the item doesn’t meet Article 12 criteria, it doesn’t need to have any wording, confusing or otherwise.

Q: What about shoes?
A: It is legal to sell fur trim [shoes] not labelled as fur if the fur is a decorative element. Only if it makes up at least 80% of the upper, or the sock, or the sole, would it need to be labelled.

Q: Is it legal to wrongly label as synthetic an item that is real fur?
A: Under consumer protection legislation, it’s technically illegal to mislead. However, the regulation – with respect to the sale of animal fur – is very poorly enforced and companies claiming they made an honest mistake or used the description given to them by a supplier, is considered a legitimate defence.

Q: What would HSI like to see change?
A: Ultimately we would like to see the UK introduce a ban on the import of all fur. However, in the meantime HSI believes that all products containing real animal fur (including clothing, footwear, accessories such as key rings, handbags etc) should be clearly and consistently labelled in plain English. Such labelling is already in place in the US – Fur Products Labeling Act and Switzerland – Swiss Ordinance on the Declaration of Furs and Furskins, and to a lesser degree, in France. Such labelling should require the inclusion of product information detailing: the species from which the fur derives (both the common and scientific name); the country of origin of the fur (where the animal was bred or hunted and killed): how the animal was reared and killed (whether the animal was caught by trapping or reared in a cage with a wire floor, for example)

Media contacts: HSI (United Kingdom): Wendy Higgins: whiggins@hsi.org, +44 (0)7989 972 423