Dolce & Gabbana has pledged to keep fur from future fashion collections

  Fashion industry and Last Chance for Animals Welcome Dolce & Gabbana’s Fur Ban. A conscious choice towards a more sustainable, fur-free future. Last Chance for Animals (LCA) welcomed news that Italian luxury fashion house, Dolce & Gabbana, has pledged to keep fur from future collections. “Dolce&Gabbana, supported by the Humane Society of the United … Read more

Selfridges to stop selling exotic animal skins

Leather from agricultural stock will still be sold at department store that went fur-free in 2005

San Francisco is the first major U.S. city to go fur-free

Say no to the cruelty of fur: San Francisco is now the Largest U.S. City to Ban Fur Sales.   Last week Italian luxury brand Versace announced its decision to go fur-free, joining the likes of Gucci, Armani, Furla, Hugo Boss, Michael Kors, and Jimmy Choo. The increasing number of top designers having dropped fur from … Read more

How to tell if faux fur is actually real

It can be tricky to know if fur is genuinely fake – and several stores with no-fur policies have been found to be selling the animal product. Here’s how to tell the difference

Japanese company named as biggest online retailer of ivory and whale meat

Conservation groups say Rakuten’s website carries 28,000 adverts for elephant ivory and 1,200 for whale products

Sustainable Seafood Policy: Shark fins off the menu

73 million sharks are killed yearly for shark fin soup. The Peninsula Hotels recognises that sharks around the world are increasingly threatened with extinction, primarily due to unsustainable fishery practices. To support the conservation of marine bio-diversity, and given the difficulty of identifying shark fin products that have come from non-threatened species and those subject … Read more