Fighting The Fur Trade

From our hard hitting campaigns involving celebrities and fashion designers to our lobbying of legislators at national and European level, we have a proud track record of fighting the international fur trade.

Respect for Animals led the successful campaign which saw fur farming banned throughout the United Kingdom.

Our LATESTS Campaigns

  • Ombudsman complaint filed after European Commission gave fur lobby privileged access
    Ombudsman complaint filed after European Commission gave fur lobby privileged access

    Respect for Animals has filed a complaint to the European Ombudsman over the European Commission’s handling of the Fur Free Europe European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI), alongside Eurogroup for Animals and FOUR PAWS. We instigated this complaint because we are deeply concerned by how, at the very moment the Commission is deciding what happens next with…

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  • Stop fur farming in Europe
    Stop fur farming in Europe

    Over 1.5 million Europeans have signed the #FurFreeEurope initiative calling for an EU-wide ban on fur farms and fur products. There’s no ethical, economic, or environmental justification for continuing this cruel practice. Tell the European Commission to act now and uphold democracy: https://www.eurogroupforanimals.org/fur-free-europe

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  • End fur sales in the UK
    End fur sales in the UK

    The UK banned fur farming in 2000 — but real fur is still imported and sold. A proposed ban would close that loophole and stop the UK profiting from cruelty in the global fur trade. At a glance What’s the problem? The UK was the first country in the world to ban fur farming. But…

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