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WyoFile An independent, reader-funded, non-profit news organization focused on the people, places, and policy of Wyoming. During his 14 years leading the Humane Society of the United States, Wayne Pacelle became familiar with how incidents uniting animal rights activists with the broader public build and then blow up, becoming international sources of outrage. Incidents that become […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Longtime Alaska artist Romney Dodd’s G Street studio could easily be mistaken for a taxidermist’s office. An entire wall is filled with animal mounts and taxidermized fish. The rest of the studio features animals transformed into art, embellished with colorful swirls and designs. For Dodd, their bodies have become her canvas.Dodd’s […]

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PHOTOS BY GARRY BRANDENBURG — The Iowa Taxidermy Association held its annual workshop and conference last weekend at the Meskwaki convention facility near Tama. Over one hundred entries were submitted for critique and judging by fellow taxidermists who came from all the surrounding states plus Iowa. Among the award presentations, retired Marshall County Conservation Board […]

An item that was originally believed to be an antique taxidermy fox has sold at auction for £60,000 after being identified as the mounted head of an extinct animal.It was first bought for just £50 at an antiques market before it was later discovered to be a rare thylacine, a creature sometimes referred to as […]

High Country News A nonprofit independent magazine of unblinking journalism that shines a light on all of the complexities of the West. In late 2023, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials released five wolves on a remote chunk of state land in Grand County. Five more wolves were released in Summit County shortly thereafter. Two of […]

The Canadian seal cull, which takes place each spring off the country’s east coast, has become an annual showdown between campaigners and the Canadian authorities. It sees as many as 300,000 harp seals shot or clubbed to death for their fur and other byproducts, including oil, meat and body parts prized for aphrodisiac purposes.Repeatedly condemned […]

This model is wearing a fake fur jacket – now sales of real fur could be bannedA ban on sales of real fur should be considered, a committee of MPs has recommended.The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) Committee investigation into the issue came after some real fur was found wrongly labelled as fake.They described […]

High Country News A nonprofit independent magazine of unblinking journalism that shines a light on all of the complexities of the West. This story was updated on January 8, 2026. 2025 was an eventful year for Mexican wolves. The imperiled predators — a subspecies of gray wolf reintroduced to the Southwest in 1998 — appeared […]

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