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 ...

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

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Eric Jay Dolin talked about the roots of the fur trade. From the early 16th through the 19th centuries, Europeans, Americans, and Native ...

It is far past time that Washington state bans animal fur sales and fur farms. A coalition of groups passionate about animal protection are working hard to support bills during the 2022 legislative ...

The lone coyote works its way down the draw, the towering Bitterroot Mountains glittering with snow behind and above it. An inexperienced observer might think the wild canine is randomly cruising down ...

Historian Eric Jay Dolin brilliantly argues that the trade in animal skins turned colonial America into a tumultuous frontier where global powers battled for control. From the 17th century right on up ...

Eric Jay Dolin’s last book, Leviathan, chronicled the whaling industry in America as the forerunner of today’s energy industry. This is becoming Dolin’s niche: following the money to overlooked parts ...

Kopenhagen Fur, which describes itself as the world's largest fur auctioneer, said this week it will shut its doors in a few years. Some say this could be one element signaling the start of the end of ...

The fur trade played a large role in shaping early North American economies and cultures. The North American fur trade was a key economic and cultural system linking Indigenous and European peoples, ...

It has long been known that zoonotic diseases, which originate in animals and can jump to humans and back again, have been a prime source and vector for pandemics, with COVID-19 the most recent ...