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• - The singer Sophie Ellis Bextor and the photographer Mary McCartney, the daughter of the former Beatle, have donated their services to PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) for their campaign against the increasing popularity of fur.
  
• - Site includes anti-fur facts, photos, the history of the event and links to related sites. From CAFT (Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade) and LCA (Last Chance For Animals). Not updated since 1999.
  
• - Campaigners from PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, invaded the runway during the Victoria's Secrets show in New York targeting one of the most prominent models to wear fur since it began to creep back into acceptability in fashion circles
  
• - A non-profit organization representing over 600 fur farming families in the US.
  
• - Provides ways to take meaningful action against the fur trade and some easy ways to help prevent the killing of animals for their fur.
  
• - Native Canadians discuss the antifur campaigns of IFAW and Greenpeace that began in the late 1960's, and how the "Hollywood rich people, bleeding hearts and self-righteous groups" have killed the Inuit way of life and replaced it with oil, gas a
  
• - Provides information about the inhumane use of fur in fashion, provides steps to take to protest this use, and shows celebrity support of the cause.
  
• - More than 300 designers have used fur in their shows this year, rolling back PETA's 1994 'I'd Rather Go Naked' campaign with Elle MacPherson, Christy Turlington, Kate Moss, Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell (only Turlington and MacPherso
  
• - Building greater awareness of fur related issues and helping to dispel myths about production.
  
• - Retailers believe fur's sudden popularity is partly fuelled by a new generation of consumers rebelling against the anti-fur movement and the political correctness of the Nineties.
  
• - Personal page abour fur farming and fur trapping includes rebuttals for reasons people give for buying fur. Photos and links to other anti-fur sites.
  
• - Campaigns against the international fur trade, both fur farming and trapping. UK.
  
• - Articles and suggestions from their campaign to make trapping and the fur trade illegal. Includes Fur Free activist guide. From the Humane Society for the United States.
  
• - Information center on the fur fashion trade including its animal welfare and conservation impacts on wild and domestic species. Sponsored by HSUS and the Bellerive Foundation.
  
• - The revival of fur on the catwalks for winter 2002 shows that animal rights activists are having difficulty converting the fashion industry. They have a strong advocate in British designer Stella McCartney: "Everything in [my] store and every single