Conservation
The pitiful Arctic foxes that shame the fashion world
The Arctic fox lies listless in a cramped wire cage, its blank, red eyes sunk deep into the fleshy folds of its face, and its body distorted by the huge rolls of fat under its glossy fur.
It’s hard to imagine a more pitiful contrast to its life in the wild where these sleek, beautiful creatures roam free across many miles of frozen tundra each day in search of prey.
Footage of a playful cub, diving repeatedly into the snowdrifts as it learned to catch lemmings, memorably charmed TV viewers when it was featured in the Sir David Attenborough nature series, Life Story. It is an existence that this poor specimen — and the millions of other foxes kept on Finland’s fur farms — will never know.
They spend their entire life in cages, some afflicted by painful health problems, before being slaughtered and then skinned so their prized pelts can be turned into expensive coats and fashion accessories.
More than 100 million animals are killed for their fur every year.
Read more at Daily MailSource: Daily Mail
Thu 31 May 2018 at 08:34
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