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This Giving Tuesday Help #MakeFurHistory

This Giving Tuesday, please help us recover our costs and make sure we can continue creating these educational documents, as well as other paperless tools like our petitions and targeted emails that can be found on our website. Every gift counts: from $5 per month to a one-time donation of $100.
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Lessons to learn from the National Park Service

It was the tweet heard around the world. Following reports of gag orders, the Badlands National Parks’ twitter account posted a few tweets about climate change – a topic contentious to the new American president and his administration. Despite a clear 97 per cent scientific consensus on the facts of...
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India bans the importation of mink, fox, chinchilla fur

The New Year of victories continues as the second most populated country on the planet has officially banned the importation of mink, fox, and chinchilla fur. “The matter was taken up by Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi, who wrote a letter to Minister of State for Commerce...
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ACTION ALERT: Tell Columbia Sportswear to stop selling fur

Even though Columbia Sportswear is listed as a fur-free company, it has begun selling jackets and hats made with real coyote fur through its Canadian brand, Sorel. In a 2010 article with the Humane Society of the United States, Columbia’s Corporate Responsibility Manager said, “Columbia does not use animal fur...
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VAUTE pop-up shop hitting Toronto this weekend

Are you looking for a way to warm you heart – and the rest of your body – in the Toronto area this weekend? Then we’ve got news for you! Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart, founder of VAUTE , is arriving in the city for a two-day pop-up sale of her Toronto-made...
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