Furmark Ambassadors Report on Certification Program’s Reception
byFurmark is a global certification and traceability system for natural fur, now being rolled out by the International Fur Federation. This article first appeared…
Canada Goose Retreats from Fur. We Should All Worry, Not Just Trappers
byThe recent news that Canada Goose would stop trimming the hoods of its performance parkas with coyote fur by the end of 2022 disappointed…
Call to Action! Save Great Britain’s Fur Retail Trade
byAnimal rightists have been badgering the UK government to ban the fur retail trade for years, and with their country now out of the…
Making Fur Clothing Available in Different Ways
byThis article first appeared in The Canadian Trapper magazine. I’ve loved fur clothing since I was a little girl, as well as animals. I was…
A View from the Ivory Tower
byPierre-Yves Daoust is a professor emeritus and adjunct professor of pathology and microbiology at the University of Prince Edward Island, who lists among his…
What Inspires Inaugural Fur Design Competition Winners?
byLate last year, the Fur Council of Canada launched the inaugural Fur Design Competition for young designers residing in Canada, and in February the…
US Legislators Should Be Promoting Natural Fur, Not Seeking to Ban It
byA troubling new trend among progressive legislators in the US is to virtue signal by proposing to ban the sale of natural fur products. Apart…
Gene Walters – Child of the Wilderness
byGene Walters was born in South Dakota in 1927, but his family moved to the untamed forests of northern Alberta when he was about…
Take a Kid Trapping – They Say the Darnedest Things!
by“Take a kid trapping” was first published in the March/April 2021 issue of Canadian Trapper magazine, telling your stories for the last 34 years….