Fox fur favoured
Northern Downs News, Page: 3. Thursday, 12 March, 2009
The Sporting Shooters ‘ Association of Australia (SSAA) is calling on its members, fashion designers, retail stores and the government to promote European fox fur from Australia as an environmentally friendly fur alternative.
The fox, one of the most destructive pest animals introduced into Australia, could provide pelts from both commercial and non-commercial fox hunters that could be promoted in a similar fashion to Eco Fur ‘ products in New Zealand which has major environmental problems due to the introduced Australian brush-tail possum.
Australian research has shown the fox consumes approximately 30 per cent wildlife in its diet around 40kg of small native animals per year.
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