SUNBURY — ”Pure and simple, it was a terroristic attack” is how the executive director of the Fur Commission USA describes the release of 700 mink from their cages at a Northumberland County farm.

ROCKEFELLER TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WOLF) — A vandal reportedly broke into a mink farm in Pennsylvania, setting thousands of mink loose in the area. State Police said Richard H. Stahl Sons in Rockefeller ...

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In early August 2023, Finland’s food authority ordered three of the nation’s fur farms to slaughter 50,000 of their animals. The purpose was not to create new fur coats, but to stop a virus: the H5N1 ...

Trespassers targeted a mink farm in the Massillon area late July 2 or early July 3, cut through a fence and released about 2,000 mink, the Fur Commission USA said. The Stark County Sheriff's Office ...

As stories about species going extinct continue to make headlines, global animal conservation efforts are not always a source ...

WISCONSIN (WKOW) -- The man who raided a Wisconsin mink farm in 1997 is sharing his story after the same farm was raided again. Trempealeau County investigators are looking to track down the person(s) ...

Fur seems to be making a high fashion comeback, the September issue of National Geographic reports. “The current revival is a story of the fur trade responding to its critics and often outmaneuvering ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends today’s filing of the Mink Facility Disease Prevention Act, which would end mink farming in Illinois to protect human health. Sponsored by ...

As the European Union’s largest fur producer, Poland will no longer participate in global fur trade after the country enacted a ban on fur farming. The legislation was signed into law by President ...

The happy-go-luck mink had no idea how lucky it was. As a child, Scott Beckstead watched the foreman at his grandfather’s mink farm keep the unnamed pet mink as his constant companion. Though the ...

Poland has enacted a nationwide ban on fur farming, requiring all existing operations to cease by 2033 and prohibiting the ...