When people picture a mink, they often jump straight to fur — big, elaborate coats like Cruella de Vil’s in Disney’s animated 101 Dalmatians. They’re not wrong: the fur trade helped shape early Oregon ...

One of the world’s top mink-producing countries is shutting down the industry as a result of COVID-19. Two findings—rising rates of infection among mink at Dutch fur farms and the discovery that the ...

Lars Holten Hansen spent the first Saturday in November in his barn in northern Denmark, killing the mink that his family had raised for two generations. His partner, Rina Skjøth, who designs jewelry ...

Spread of the coronavirus has exposed troubling problems at fur farms and how we respond to outbreaks there. Denmark killed all its farmed mink last year, millions of animals, after a variant form of ...

The Oregon legislature is mulling a potential ban on mink farming, which if passed would make the state the first in America to outlaw the practice. Senate Bill 832, sponsored by Senator Floyd ...

The U.S., the Netherlands, Denmark and Spain have all reported coronavirus outbreaks on mink farms. Dzīvnieku brīvība via Flickr Commons under CC BY 2.0 The government of Denmark announced that it ...

MILAN/COPENHAGEN, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Denmark's coronavirus-driven mink cull has put the fur business in a spin, with industry officials expecting fashion houses such as Louis Vuitton, Dior and Fendi ...