Wild Fur is a Sustainable, Renewable, Ethical Resource
The fur industry has an unfair reputation in media representation. Preconceived notions are based on gross and widespread misinformation perpetrated by public emotions fueled by the neglect of facts and reality.
Firstly, wild fur is attained by certified and trained trappers who purchase licenses to procure the pelts. Trappers managed fur-bearing animal populations to control the number of animals in a given area. With increasing urbanization, infrastructure, industry and human population growth - resulting in habitat loss - species management is more important than ever.
This is why wild fur is a sustainable and renewable resource, as these populations must be managed and wild pelts are a resourceful and useful byproduct of that.
Trapping is Conservation
Conservation of species by management of population to prevent overpopulation i.e., disease, starvation, ecosystem damage, and increasing incidents of interaction with humans. All due to the capacity of wild animals pushed into smaller and smaller reserves of habitable land for species.
The evidence and appreciation for this centuries-long proven necessity of management by humans (again increasing need due to the growing human population) has been nearly eradicated in society today. The culture of hunting, fishing, and trapping and their imperative benefits to wildlife conservation are vilified. A once celebrated, admired, cherished, and widespread practice and ideology of conservation lost.
This disconnect of the culture of outdoorsmanship leads to a distance from the reality of the heritage and therefore creates space for misconceptions to form. Distance from this one time-honoured tradition and culture allows for false information to spread through the mainstream public.
Biodegradable, Organic, High Quality Products
Wild fur is not cruel. It is highly regulated for the most humane practices of species management and obtaining its byproducts. Wild fur is a sustainable and renewable abundant resource. Wild fur is an organic and natural garment material that will decompose eventually as part of the natural cycle of the Earth - Unlike fake/vegan ‘fur’ made of synthetic materials, which does not degrade but ends up in landfills as microplastics and forever chemicals.
Legal and regulated hunting and trapping practices conserve wild animal species, habitats, and ecological systems. This practical implementation of conservation creates sustainable byproducts such as meat and clothing. Promoting an industry that is based on a sustainable byproduct of regulated, scientifically proven, reliable, traditional means of species management. This makes a lot more sense than supporting an industry creating a plastic substitute for this pre-existing sustainably procured byproduct. Even vintage wild fur is incredibly sustainable in comparison to buying new plastic ‘fur’ garments.